ISBN: 1854353004

Edition: Reference edition.

Description: 5 volume : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 31 cm

Other Title: Great composers II, their lives and times.

Notes:

• Cover title: Great composers II, their lives and times.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

• 1. Jacques Offenbach, 1819-1880; Johann Strauss II, 1825-1899; Claude Debussy, 1862-1918; Maurice Ravel, 1875-1937
• 2. Bedrĭch Smetana, 1824-1884; Antoniń Dvorăḱ, 1841-1904; Edvard Grieg, 1843-1907; Jean Sibelius, 1865-1957
• 3. Modest Mussorgsky, 1839-1881; Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, 1844-1908; Sergei Rachmaninov, 1873-1943; Sergei Prokofiev, 1891-1953, Dmitri Shostakovich, 1906-1975
• 4. Edward Elgar, 1857-1934; Richard Strauss, 1864-1949; Gustav Holst, 1874-1934; Joaquiń Rodrigo, b. 1901
• 5. Index.

LCCN: 89023988

Control Number: 39039

Subjects:

• Composers -- Biography.
• Music appreciation.

Genre: Biographies.

Other Authors: Marshall Cavendish Corporation.