Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music. In a precise, engaging, and authoritative manner, each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians' inspirations, influences, life experiences, even their weaknesses, with an accessible discussion of their work-all in roughly 300 pages. Further, each volume offers superb reference material, including a detailed life and times chronology, a complete list of works, a personalia glossary highlighting the important people in the composer's life, and a select bibliography. Under the supervision of music expert and series general editor Stanley Sadie, Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years.
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If the life of Mendelssohn is set beside those of most great composers, its most striking feature is its comparative ease and luxuriousness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
additional accompaniments, fugal writing, organ sonatas, block harmony, piano quartet, next chorus, sonata form, keyboard writing, slow introduction, mixed voices, considerable beauty, musical invention Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Piano Sonata, Violin Concerto, Cello Sonata, Wilhelm Hensel, Abraham Mendelssohn, Hymn of Praise, Lower Rhine Festival, Sterndale Bennett, Violin Sonata, Die Hochzeit des Camacho, Philharmonic Society, Der Onkel, Domenico Scarlatti, Prosperous Voyage, Ruy Blas, Beethoven's Quartet, Jenny Lind, King of Saxony, Moses Mendelssohn New!
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If the life of Mendelssohn is set beside those of most great composers, its most striking feature is its comparative ease and luxuriousness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
additional accompaniments, fugal writing, organ sonatas, block harmony, piano quartet, next chorus, sonata form, keyboard writing, slow introduction, mixed voices, considerable beauty, musical invention Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Piano Sonata, Violin Concerto, Cello Sonata, Wilhelm Hensel, Abraham Mendelssohn, Hymn of Praise, Lower Rhine Festival, Sterndale Bennett, Violin Sonata, Die Hochzeit des Camacho, Philharmonic Society, Der Onkel, Domenico Scarlatti, Prosperous Voyage, Ruy Blas, Beethoven's Quartet, Jenny Lind, King of Saxony, Moses Mendelssohn New!
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- Violin Concerto (Penguin music scores) by Felix Mendelssohn on 8 pages
- Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo on 4 pages
- Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Don Quixote (English Picture Readers) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra on page 10, and page 133
- Buckingham Palace by Michael Hall on page 39, and page 49
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