World's 50 Greatest Composers CD Set
The composers represented in this collection were selected by analyzing lists of composers published by university music departments, noted musicologists and writers of music history. Each CD offers a summary of the composer’s life, personality and experiences and a summary of the background and times in which the composer lived. How the composer changed musical form and style, his unique influence on music and on other composers, a list of the composer’s master works and a selection of his work is included. Each of the 50 CDs highlights one of the world’s greatest composers.
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This 50-CD collection of the World’s 50 Greatest Composers gives you vital information about classical music’s greatest geniuses.
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| Giovanni da Palestrina Claudio Monteverdi Henry Purcell Antonio Vivaldi Jean-Philippe Rameau Johann Sebastian Bach George Frideric Handel Christoph Gluck Franz Joseph Haydn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Karl Maria von Weber Gioacchino Rossini Gaetano Donizetti Hector Berlioz Felix Mendelssohn Frédéric Chopin Robert Schumann Franz Liszt Richard Wagner Giuseppe Verdi Cesar Franck Johann Strauss Johannes Brahms |
Camille Saint-Saëns Georges Bizet Modest Moussorgsky Peter Tchaikovsky Antonin Dvorák Edvard Grieg Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Gabriel Fauré Giacomo Puccini Gustav Mahler Richard Strauss Leos Janácek Claude Debussy Jean Sibelius Ralph Vaughan Williams Sergei Rachmaninoff Arnold Schoenberg Maurice Ravel Manuel de Falla Béla Bartók Igor Stravinsky Sergei Prokofiev George Gershwin Aaron Copland Dimitri Shostakovich |