Encyclopedia of the great composers and their music
By: [by] Milton Cross and David Ewen.
Contributors: Ewen, David, 1907-
Edition: New rev. ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1009
Subjects: Composers -- Biography -- Dictionaries.; Music -- Discography.
Description: "Basically it is about the foremost composers of the past and present (seventy-eight in number) and their music. Here will be found exhaustive biographies not only of the giant figures but also of secondary composers about whombiographical and critical material is not so readily accessible; thirty contemporaries are include din the gallery of composers, among them seven representataive Americans."
Notes: "One hundred basic works for the record library": p. [917]-926. Bibliography: p. [965]-978.