| The World's Great Men of Music
Story-Lives of Master Musicians | Brower, Harriette, 1869-1928 | en | | 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. | | Musicians; Composers -- Biography | 2004-08-25 |
| Old Scores and New Readings
Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians | Runciman, John F., 1866-1916 | en | | William Byrde ... his mass -- Our last great musician (Henry Purcell, 1658-95) -- Bach; the "Matthew" passion and the "John" -- Handel -- Haydn and his "Creation" -- Mozart, his "Don Giovanni" and the Requiem -- "Fidelio" -- Schubert -- Weber and Wagner -- Italian opera, dead and dying -- Verdi young and Verdi younger -- "The flying Dutchman" -- "Lohengrin" -- "Tristan and Isolda" -- "Siegfried" -- "The dusk of the gods" -- "Parsifal" -- Bayreuth in 1897 -- A note on Brahms -- Anton Dvorák -- Tschaikowsky and his "Pathetic" symphony -- Lamoureux and his orchestra. | | Opera; Music; Musicians | 2005-03-15 |