Acknowledgments
Introduction
The 50 Composers and the Also-Rans p. 1
The Organization of Sound p. 26
Setting the Stage p. 42
The Lives and the Works p. 96
Johann Sebastian Bach p. 96
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart p. 115
Ludwig van Beethoven p. 131
Richard Wagner p. 145
Franz Joseph Haydn p. 157
Johannes Brahms p. 168
Franz Schubert p. 179
Robert Schumann p. 189
George Frideric Handel p. 200
Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky p. 210
Felix Mendelssohn p. 220
Antonin Dvorak p. 231
Franz Liszt p. 241
Frederic Chopin p. 250
Igor Stravinsky p. 259
Giuseppe Verdi p. 269
Gustav Mahler p. 278
Sergei Prokofiev p. 288
Dmitri Shostakovich p. 298
Richard Strauss p. 308
Hector Berlioz p. 318
Claude Debussy p. 330
Giacomo Puccini p. 339
Giovanni da Palestrina p. 345
Anton Bruckner p. 352
Georg Telemann p. 361
Camille Saint-Saens p. 368
Jean Sibelius p. 375
Maurice Ravel p. 383
Gioacchino Rossini p. 390
Edvard Grieg p. 398
Christoph Gluck p. 406
Paul Hindemith p. 413
Claudio Monteverdi p. 421
Bela Bartok p. 427
Cesar Franck p. 434
Antonio Vivaldi p. 441
Georges Bizet p. 449
Modest Mussorgsky p. 456
Jean-Philippe Rameau p. 465
Gabriel Faure p. 472
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov p. 479
Gaetano Donizetti p. 487
Ralph Vaughan Williams p. 493
Bedrich Smetana p. 501
Johann Strauss p. 508
Karl Maria Von Weber p. 515
Leos Janacek p. 522
Francois Couperin p. 529
Alexander Borodin p. 535
The Orchestra p. 542
Compact-Disc Discography p. 579
Index p. 621
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