Elson, Louis Charles, 1848-1920.

Great composers and their work. - Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1972] - 302 p. illus. 23 cm. - Essay index reprint series .

Reprint of the 1898 ed.

The old Flemish school.--The old Italian composers, Palestrina.--Opera and oratorio, Gluck, Bach, Ha��?�ndel.--Haydn and Mozart.--Ludwig van Beethoven.--Franz Peter Schubert.--Chopin and the modern piano composers.--Mendelssohn and Schumann.--A batch of operatic composers.--Wagner, his life and theories.--Johannes Brahms.--Giuseppe Verdi.--Other influences in modern music.

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Composers.

ML 390 / .E49 1972