The listener's companion
Subtitle: the great composers and their works
By: Nicolas Slonimsky ; [edited by Electra Yourke].
Contributors: Yourke, Electra.
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism.; Music appreciation.
Other titles: Great composers and their works
Notes: Collection of articles written for the Boston Evening transcript, the Christian Science monitor, and other newspapers, as well as program notes, reviews, etc. compiled and edited by Electra Slonimsky Yourke.
Table of contents: title: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) : musical fountainhead; title: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) : the magnificent; title: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) : a genius of perfection in music; title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) : the supreme; title: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) : the fervent genius; title: The felicitous Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847); title: The paradoxical Richard Wagner (1813-1883); title: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) : the third B of music; title: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) : poet of cheerful melancholy; title: Presenting the great Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908); title: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) : musical Prometheus; title: Claude Debussy (1862-1918) : poet of musical impressions; title: Richard Strauss (1864-1949) : Richard the Second; title: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) : a musical prophet; title: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) : poet of simplicity; title: Béla Bartók (1881-1945) : modern Janus; title: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) : perennial revolutionary; title: Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) : his signature, SRG PRKFV; title: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) : besieged nationalist.