The Rough Guide to Classical Music
By Joe Staines.
Description
The Rough Guide to Classical Music is the ideal handbook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to contemporaries such as Thomas Ades and Kaija Saariaho. Both a music buyer's guide and a who's who, the guide includes concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. For novices and experts alike, this fully-updated fifth edition features contemporary composer Helmut Lachenmann and Widor, the 19th century organ composer of "To...
ISBN(s)
1848364768, 9781848364769
