Composer's World: Mozart (Composer's World)

Biographies & Memoirs

Wendy Thompson

Arts & Literature

Faber Music

Arts & Photography

Music

Faber and Faber Ltd.

Composer's World: Beethoven (Composer's World)

Faber&Faber

Part of a series of picture books for readers aged twelve and upwards illustrating the lives and times of the world's greatest composers. This book looks at the life and work of Haydn, a life that spanned a period of great political and social, as well as musical change: born when both Bach and Handel were at the height of their fame, he outlived his friend Mozart by 18 years, having seen his greatest pupil Beethoven well-established in his own career. But neither Mozart nor Beethoven could have created their masterpieces - symphonies, string quartets, sonatas - without the example of Haydn. This illustrated biography brings the world of the 18th century vividly to life, and includes extracts from some of Haydn's best-loved works in simple keyboard arrangements.

Joseph Haydn (Composer's World)

Faber and Faber

Among the torch-bearers in the funeral pocession of Ludwig van Beethoven was a small, stocky young man of thirty, with curly dark hair and spectacles. For Franz Schubert, carrying the torch was simply an act of private and public homage; but we can now see that it had a far deeper significance. The torch of Beethoven's genius had been passed on to Schubert - the last great Viennese composer of the late 18th century. This illustrated biography of Schubert's brief, but astonishing, career is set against the colourful background of Metternich's Vienna. Music extracts include some of his most memorable melodies, among them the "Unfinished Symphony", "Rosamunde", the C Major Quintet and songs such as "Heindenroslein".

Franz Schubert (Composer's World)

Introduces the life and works of the great composer, and sets him in the context of his times

Joseph Haydn

Penguin USA

Franz Peter Schubert (Composer's World)

Children's Books

Faber And Faber Juvenile

<p>Instruments of the orchestra and the great composers</p>

The Encyclopedia Of Music Instruments Of The Orchestra And The Great Composers

Reference

Max Wade-Matthews

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Hermes_House

The Encyclopedia of Music

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