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Author Kaufmann, Helen L.

Title History's 100 greatest composers. Biographies by Helen L. Kaufmann. Portraits by Samuel Nisenson.

Publication Info. New York, Grosset & Dunlap [1957]
©1957

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Location Call No. Status
 Central Library - Archives  ML390 .K2 1957    Library Use Only
Description 145 pages illustrations 29 cm.
Series Illustrated true books
Illustrated true books.
Contents Isaac Albeniz -- Carl Philipp Emanuel -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Samuel Barber -- Bela Bartok -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Alban Berg -- Hector Berlioz -- Leonard Bernstein -- Georges Bizet -- Ernest Bloch -- Luigi Boccherini -- Alexander Borodin -- Johannes Brahms -- Benjamin Britten -- Max Bruch -- Anton Bruckner -- William Byrd -- Ernest Chausson -- Carlos Chavez -- Luigi Cherubini -- Frederic Chopin -- Aaron Copland -- Arcangelo Corelli -- Francois Couperin -- Claude Achille Debussy -- Frederivk Delius -- Gaetano Donizetti -- Paul Dukas -- Georges Enesco -- Manuel de Falla -- Gabriel Faure -- Stephen Foster -- Cesar Franck -- George Gershwin -- Michael Glinka -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Charles Gounod -- Enrique Granados -- Edvard Grieg -- Charles T. Griffes -- George Frederick Handel -- Roy Harris -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Victor Herbert -- Paul Hindemith -- Arthur Honegger -- Vincent D'Indy -- Charles Ives -- Aram Khatchatourian -- Zoltan Kodaly -- Orlandus Lassus -- Ruggiero Leoncavallo -- Franz Liszt -- Jean Baptiste Lully -- Edward MacDowell -- Gustav Mahler -- Pietro Mascagni -- Jules Massenet -- Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn -- Gian-Carlo Menotti -- Darius Milhaud -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Modest Mussorgsky -- Jacques Offenbach -- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Giovanni Pegolesi -- Sergei Prokofieff -- Henry Purcell -- Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Jean Philippe Rameau -- Maurice Ravel -- Ottorino Respighi -- Gioacchino Rossini -- Charles Camille Saint-Saens -- Domenico Scarlatti -- Arnold Schonberg -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Dmitri Shostakovitch -- Jean Sibelius -- Bedrich Smetana -- John Philip Sousa -- Johann Strauss -- Igor Stravinsky -- Sir Arthur Sullivan -- Peter Ilitch Tchaikowsky -- Ralph Vaugh Williams -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Heitor Villa-Lobos -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Richard Wagner -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Hugo Wolf.
Summary Brief biographies of one hundred composers including their early years, musical development, and accomplishments.
Subject Composers -- Biography.
Composers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Local Subject Carver College Library.
CP Archives.
Added Author Nisenson, Samuel.
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