Funk & Wagnalls the great composers
Subtitle: their lives and times with program notes for the recordings.
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Composers -- Biography; Music -- History and criticism; Music appreciation
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Great composers : family library of great music
Notes: "The final pages of each chapter ... contain the Program Notes for the [60] selections contained in the 22 albums [of the Family Library of Great Music]."--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: 1. Beethoven (early years 1770-1804); title: 2. Tchaikovsky (early years 1840-1877); title: 3. Mozart (early years 1756-1782); title: 4. Brahms (early years 1833-1872); title: 5. Chopin (1810-1849); title: Bach (1685-1750); title: 7. Grieg (1843-1907); title: 8. Schubert (1797-1828); title: 9. Rachmaninoff (1873-1943); title: 10. Liszt (1811-1886); title: 11. Mendelssohn (1809-1847); title: 12. Beethoven (later years 1804-1822); title: 13. Strauss (1825-1899); title: 14. Tchaikovsky (later years 1877-1893); title: 15. Dvorák (1841-1904); title: 16. Wagner (1813-1883); title: 17. Brahms (later years 1872-1897); title: 18. Handel (1685-1759); title: 19. Mozart (later years 1782-1791); title: 20. Beethoven (last years 1822-1827); title: 21. Haydn (1732-1809); title: 22. Berlioz (1803-1869).