The Lives Of The Great Composers

Tracing the consecutive line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of biographical chapters, this work shows music as a co... » 

Tracing the consecutive line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of biographical chapters, this work shows music as a continually evolving art. The lives of the artists are woven into a fabric of detail and anecdote. This new edition includes later composers. «