From Bach to Stravinsky
Subtitle: the history of music by its foremost critics
By: edited by David Ewen.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Published: 1933
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism; Composers -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "The history of music from the eighteenth century to the present day, with the emphasis on the composers themselves, their works, their lives, their personalities."--Introd.
Table of contents: title: The periods of musical history, by D.G. Mason.; title: The beginning of opera, by Carl Engel.; title: Bach, by C.S. Terry.; title: Handel, by Romain Rolland.; title: Haydn, by W.O. Strunk.; title: Mozart, by W.J. Turner.; title: Beethoven, by C.H. Parry.; title: The romantic movement, by Paul Bekker.; title: Schubert, by C.H.H. Parry.; title: Chopin, by J.C. Hadden.; title: Schumann, by W.H. Hadow.; title: Wagner, by H.C. Colles.; title: Brahms, by J.A. Fuller-Maitland.; title: Russian musical history in kaleidoscope, by M.M. Nathan.; title: Tchaikovsky, by R.A. Streatfeild.; title: Franck, by Leland Hall.; title: Debussy and Ravel, by Paul Rosenfeld.; title: Late romanticism and modern trends, by Paul Bekker.; title: Stravinsky, by Leonid Sabaneyeff.; title: Harking back and looking foreward, by Carl Engel.