Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction xiii
4. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) 1
5. Mily Balakirev (1837–1910) 18
6. Samuel Barber (1910–81) 22
7. Béla Bartók (1881–1945) 27
8. Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) 49
9. Alban Berg (1885–1935) 86
10. Hector Berlioz (1803–69) 90
11. Georges Bizet (1838–75) 103
12. Alexander Borodin (1833–87) 105
13. Johannes Brahms (1833–97) 110
14. Benjamin Britten (1913–76) 136
15. Max Bruch (1838–1920) 144
16. Anton Bruckner (1824–96) 150
17. Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94) 175
18. Frédéric (Fryderyk) Chopin (1810–49) 177
19. Aaron Copland (1900–90) 182
20. Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) 190
21. Claude Debussy (1862–1918) 200
22. Frederick Delius (1862–1934) 213
23. Antonin Dvořák (1841–1904) 216
24. Edward Elgar (1857–1934) 239
25. Manuel De Falla (1876–1946) 263
26. Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) 266
27. César Franck (1822–90) 271
28. George Gershwin (1898–1937) 276
29. Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–57) 285
30. Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) 287
31. George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel) (1685–1759) 295
32. Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) 310
33. Paul Hindemith (1895–1963) 360
34. Gustav Holst (1874–1934) 366
35. Charles Ives (1874–1954) 371
36. Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) 379
37. Franz Liszt (1811–86) 382
38. Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) 393
39. Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959) 446
40. Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47) 449
41. Olivier Messiaen (1908–92) 461
42. Darius Milhaud (1892–1974) 468
43. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91) 472
44. Modest Musorgsky (1839–81) 544
45. Carl Nielsen (1865–1931) 553
46. Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) 566
47. Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) 594
48. Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) 613
49. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) 632
50. Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) 636
51. Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) 638
52. Erik Satie (1866–1925) 646
53. Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) 651
54. Franz Schubert (1797–1828) 661
55. Robert Schumann (1810–56) 677
56. Alexander Scriabin (Aleksandr Nikolayevich Skryabin) (1872–1915) 692
57. Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–75) 697
58. Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) 721
59. Bedřich Smetana (1824–84) 753
60. Richard Strauss (1864–1949) 758
61. Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) 774
62. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93) 803
63. Michael Tippett (1905–98) 841
64. Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) 845
65. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) 848
66. Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) 867
67. Richard Wagner (1813–83) 880
68. William Walton (1902–83) 883
69. Carl Maria Von Weber (1786–1826) 889
70. Anton Webern (1883–1945) 893
71. Endnotes 902
72. Index 920