The stories and delightful portraits of Rameau, Weber, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Mendelssohon, Mozart, Schubert, Gluck and others. A jolly introduction to the music of this era.
Schumann, Liszt, Smetana, Brahms, Bizet, Dvorak, and Rossini, to name but a few. You will learn much about nineteenth century composers in this amusing book.
A portrait of Antonio Vivaldi captures the life of the eighteenth-century Venetian composer, providing information on the influences that shaped both his life and work as well as the great revival that occurred in 1926 with the discovery of his manuscripts.