World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
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179
1922
English
- Foreword
- Palestrina
- John Sebastian Bach
- George Frederick Handel
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Josef Haydn
- Wolfgang Mozart
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Franz Schubert
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Robert Schumann
- Frederic Chopin
- Hector Berlioz
- Franz Liszt
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Richard Wagner
- César Franck
- Johannes Brahms
- Edward Grieg
- Peter Ilyitch Tschaikowsky
- Edward MacDowell
- Claude Achille Debussy
- Arturo Toscanini
- Leopold Stokowsky
- Serge Koussevitzky
These stories are gathered from many sources including biographies, letters, journals and musical history. The life story of 25 of the most celebrated musicians is presented. The author has aimed to make the story-sketches interesting to young people in hopes that they may prove valuable to musical readers of all ages. Students of piano, violin or other instruments need to know how the great composers lived their lives. In every musical career described in this book, from the old masters represented by Bach and Beethoven to the musical prophets of our own day, there is a wealth of inspiration and practical guidance for the artist in any field. Through their struggles, sorrows and triumphs, divine melody and harmony came into being, which will bless the world for all time to come. - Summary taken from the Foreword of the author
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