The Rough Guide to Classical MusicThis expanded and completely revised fifth edition is a unique ebook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide to Classical Music in a new ebook (PDF) fromat has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously. |
Contents
John Adams 1 | 1 |
Thomas Adès 4 | 4 |
Isaac Albéniz 6 | 6 |
Tomaso Albinoni 8 | 8 |
Gregorio Allegri 9 | 9 |
Louis Andriessen 10 | 10 |
Malcolm Arnold 12 | 12 |
Grazyna Bacewicz 14 | 14 |
Franz Liszt 305 | 305 |
JeanBaptiste Lully 310 | 310 |
Witold Lutoslawski 311 | 311 |
Elisabeth Lutyens 314 | 314 |
Guillaume de Machaut 316 | 316 |
James MacMillan 318 | 318 |
Elizabeth Maconchy 320 | 320 |
Gustav Mahler 322 | 322 |
CPE Bach 16 | 16 |
JS Bach 18 | 18 |
Samuel Barber 33 | 33 |
Agustín Pio Barrios 34 | 34 |
Béla Bartók 36 | 36 |
Arnold Bax 41 | 41 |
Ludwig van Beethoven 45 | 45 |
Vincenzo Bellini 63 | 63 |
George Benjamin 65 | 65 |
Alban Berg 67 | 67 |
Luciano Berio 71 | 71 |
Hector Berlioz 74 | 74 |
Leonard Bernstein 78 | 78 |
Heinrich Biber 79 | 79 |
Harrison Birtwistle 81 | 81 |
Georges Bizet 84 | 84 |
Luigi Boccherini 85 | 85 |
Alexander Borodin 87 | 87 |
Lili Boulanger 89 | 89 |
Pierre Boulez 90 | 90 |
Johannes Brahms 93 | 93 |
Benjamin Britten 103 | 103 |
Max Bruch 108 | 108 |
Anton Bruckner 110 | 110 |
Antoine Brumel 118 | 118 |
Ferruccio Busoni 119 | 119 |
Dietrich Buxtehude 121 | 121 |
William Byrd 122 | 122 |
John Cage 125 | 125 |
MarieJoseph Canteloube 127 | 127 |
Giacomo Carissimi 128 | 128 |
Elliott Carter 129 | 129 |
Francesco Cavalli 132 | 132 |
Emmanuel Chabrier 133 | 133 |
MarcAntoine Charpentier 135 | 135 |
Frédéric Chopin 136 | 136 |
Muzio Clementi 142 | 142 |
Aaron Copland 143 | 143 |
Arcangelo Corelli 147 | 147 |
François Couperin 148 | 148 |
Luigi Dallapiccola 151 | 151 |
Claude Debussy 152 | 152 |
Léo Delibes 158 | 158 |
Frederick Delius 159 | 159 |
Gaetano Donizetti 161 | 161 |
John Dowland 163 | 163 |
Guillaume Dufay 165 | 165 |
Paul Dukas 166 | 166 |
John Dunstable 168 | 168 |
Henri Duparc 169 | 169 |
Maurice Duruflé 170 | 170 |
Henri Dutilleux 172 | 172 |
Antonín Dvorák 173 | 173 |
Hanns Eisler 180 | 180 |
Edward Elgar 181 | 181 |
Manuel de Falla 188 | 188 |
Gabriel Fauré 190 | 190 |
Morton Feldman 194 | 194 |
César Franck 196 | 196 |
Giovanni Gabrieli 199 | 199 |
Roberto Gerhard 200 | 200 |
George Gershwin 202 | 202 |
Carlo Gesualdo 204 | 204 |
Orlando Gibbons 207 | 207 |
Umberto Giordano 208 | 208 |
Philip Glass 209 | 209 |
Alexander Glazunov 212 | 212 |
Mikhail Glinka 213 | 213 |
Christoph Willibald Gluck 215 | 215 |
Henryk Górecki 216 | 216 |
Charles François Gounod 219 | 219 |
Percy Grainger 220 | 220 |
Enrique Granados 222 | 222 |
Edvard Grieg 223 | 223 |
Sofia Gubaidulina 227 | 227 |
George Frideric Handel 230 | 230 |
Karl Amadeus Hartmann 240 | 240 |
Jonathan Harvey 242 | 242 |
Joseph Haydn 244 | 244 |
Hans Werner Henze 253 | 253 |
Hildegard of Bingen 255 | 255 |
Paul Hindemith 258 | 258 |
Gustav Holst 262 | 262 |
Arthur Honegger 264 | 264 |
Johann Nepomuck Hummel 265 | 265 |
Engelbert Humperdinck 267 | 267 |
Charles Ives 268 | 268 |
Leoš Janácek 271 | 271 |
Josquin Desprez 275 | 275 |
Mauricio Kagel 277 | 277 |
Aram Khachaturian 279 | 279 |
Oliver Knussen 280 | 280 |
Zoltán Kodály 282 | 282 |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold 285 | 285 |
György Kurtág 288 | 288 |
Helmut Lachenmann 291 | 291 |
Francesco Landini 293 | 293 |
Roland de Lassus 294 | 294 |
William Lawes 295 | 295 |
Franz Lehár 298 | 298 |
Ruggero Leoncavallo 299 | 299 |
György Ligeti 300 | 300 |
Magnus Lindberg 304 | 304 |
Frank Martin 330 | 330 |
Bohuslav Martinu 332 | 332 |
Pietro Mascagni 334 | 334 |
Jules Massenet 335 | 335 |
Nicholas Maw 337 | 337 |
Peter Maxwell Davies 339 | 339 |
Felix Mendelssohn 341 | 341 |
Olivier Messiaen 346 | 346 |
Darius Milhaud 350 | 350 |
Claudio Monteverdi 351 | 351 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 356 | 356 |
Tristan Murail 371 | 371 |
Modest Mussorgsky 373 | 373 |
Conlon Nancarrow 376 | 376 |
Carl Nielsen 378 | 378 |
Luigi Nono 382 | 382 |
Michael Nyman 384 | 384 |
Johannes Ockeghem 387 | 387 |
Jacques Offenbach 388 | 388 |
Carl Orff 390 | 390 |
Johann Pachelbel 392 | 392 |
Nicolò Paganini 393 | 393 |
Giovanni da Palestrina 396 | 396 |
Hubert Parry 398 | 398 |
Arvo Pärt 399 | 399 |
Krzysztof Penderecki 401 | 401 |
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi 403 | 403 |
Perotin 405 | 405 |
Francis Poulenc 407 | 407 |
Michael Praetorius 411 | 411 |
Sergey Prokofiev 414 | 414 |
Giacomo Puccini 423 | 423 |
Henry Purcell 426 | 426 |
Sergey Rachmaninov 432 | 432 |
JeanPhilippe Rameau 437 | 437 |
Einojuhani Rautavaara 440 | 440 |
Maurice Ravel 441 | 441 |
Max Reger 446 | 446 |
Steve Reich 448 | 448 |
Ottorino Respighi 452 | 452 |
Wolfgang Rihm 453 | 453 |
Nikolai RimskyKorsakov 455 | 455 |
Joaquín Rodrigo 457 | 457 |
Gioacchino Rossini 458 | 458 |
Poul Ruders 461 | 461 |
Kaija Saariaho 463 | 463 |
Camille SaintSaëns 465 | 465 |
Erik Satie 468 | 468 |
Alessandro Scarlatti 470 | 470 |
Domenico Scarlatti 471 | 471 |
Giacinto Scelsi 474 | 474 |
Alfred Schnittke 476 | 476 |
Arnold Schoenberg 478 | 478 |
Franz Schreker 485 | 485 |
Franz Schubert 486 | 486 |
Robert Schumann 499 | 499 |
Heinrich Schütz 508 | 508 |
Alexander Scriabin 510 | 510 |
Dmitri Shostakovich 513 | 513 |
Jean Sibelius 520 | 520 |
Bedrich Smetana 527 | 527 |
Ethel Smyth 529 | 529 |
Karlheinz Stockhausen 531 | 531 |
Alessandro Stradella 535 | 535 |
The Strauss family 536 | 536 |
Richard Strauss 537 | 537 |
Igor Stravinsky 544 | 544 |
Barbara Strozzi 552 | 552 |
Josef Suk 555 | 555 |
Arthur Sullivan 556 | 556 |
Karol Szymanowski 558 | 558 |
Toru Takemitsu 562 | 562 |
Thomas Tallis 564 | 564 |
Giuseppe Tartini 567 | 567 |
John Tavener 570 | 570 |
John Taverner 571 | 571 |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 572 | 572 |
Georg Philipp Telemann 581 | 581 |
Michael Tippett 583 | 583 |
Michael Torke 586 | 586 |
MarkAnthony Turnage 588 | 588 |
Viktor Ullmann 590 | 590 |
Edgard Varèse 593 | 593 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams 594 | 594 |
Giuseppe Verdi 600 | 600 |
Tomás Luis de Victoria 605 | 605 |
Heitor VillaLobos 606 | 606 |
Antonio Vivaldi 608 | 608 |
Richard Wagner 613 | 613 |
William Walton 620 | 620 |
Carl Maria von Weber 622 | 622 |
Anton Webern 625 | 625 |
Kurt Weill 628 | 628 |
Judith Weir 630 | 630 |
Silvius Leopold Weiss 631 | 631 |
CharlesMarie Widor 633 | 633 |
Hugo Wolf 635 | 635 |
Iannis Xenakis 638 | 638 |
Alexander Zemlinsky 641 | 641 |
Glossary 643 | 643 |
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