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The Da Capo Catalog of Classical Music Compositions

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The complete works of 132 composers in 1 volume! Comprehensive in scope, yet concise in presentation; "The De Capo Catalog of Music Compositions" documents
the voluminous output of Bach, Beethoven, et al. The arrangement by composer is very logical, with operas and orchestral works generally listed first
followed by chamber music and smaller pieces. Even unfinished and "lost" compositions are listed for the sake of continuity and completeness. I recommend
this catalog to musicians, recording collectors, classical radio announcers and the reference section of any public library.

This volume provides an encyclopedic reference of musical compositions that is sure to be useful to the professional as well as to those amateurs like me who enjoy collecting and listening to concert music. A little overwhelming to the novice perhaps, but invaluable none the less. I have never before seen a reference that listed the individual arias in an opera. One quible. The earliest composer cataloged is Monteverdi. As a lover of Renaissance music, I missed Byrd, Palestrina, Josquin Desprez and others in that period. No doubt the material from those earlier eras poses research challenges beyond the scope of the project but the book feels a little incomplete without them.

Albeniz Albinoni Bacewicz Bach (CPE, JC, JS, WF) Balakirev Barber Bartok Beach Beethoven Berg Berlioz Bernstein Bizet Bloch Boccherini Borodin Boulez Brahms Britten Bruch Bruckner Busoni Buxtehude Cage Castelnuovo-Tedesco Cavalli Chabrier Charpentier Cherubini Chopin Copland Corelli Couperin Debussy Delius Dohnanyi Donizetti Dupre Elgar Falla Faure Franck Frescobaldi Gershwin Glazunov Glinka Gluck Gounod Granados Grieg Handel Haydn Hindemith Holst Honegger Hummel Ives Janacek Kabalevsky Kalinnikov Khachaturian Kodaly Lalo Lehar Leoncavallo Liszt Lully Lutoslawski Mahler Martinu Massenet Mendelssohn Messiaen Meyerbeer Milhaud Moniuszko Monteverdi Mozart Musorgsky Nielsen Offenbach Orff Paderewski Paganini Penderecki Poulenc Prokofiev Puccini Purcell Rachmaninov Rameau Ravel Respighi Rimsky-Korsakov Rodrigo Rossini Roussel Saint-Saens Sarasate Satie Scarlatti (P, G) Schoenberg Schubert Schumann Shostakovich Sibelius Skryabin Smetana Spohr Stockhausen Strauss (J, J, R) Stravinsky Sullivan Szymanowski Tchaikovsky Vaughan Williams Verdi Villa-Lobos Vivaldi Wagner Weber Webern Wieniawski Wolf

Recently, I became very interested in classical music. But I had one big problem; I didn't have any friend who get some knowledge about classical music. So I decided to buy books for self-teaching. There were three books I have bought until lately; "Classical Music for Dummies ", "The Penguin Guide to Compact Disk" and this book. I think that they make good combination for a beginner like me. "The De Capo Catalog of Music Compositions" has every work list of great composers throughout the history of classical music. I couldn't find any similar book like one at local bookstore. It makes this book very unique and valuable. I actually use this book with Penguin's guide every time l buy CDs. For a professional or a novice, this book would be a perfect reference.