Publisher's Synopsis
Assembled here in two volumes are Slonimsky's writings about the great classical composers and their works, culled from the hundreds of programme notes, articles, essays, and album liner notes that he wrote over a lifetime.;Nineteen chapters, arranged by composer, cover the greats from Bach to Shostakovich. Each chapter opens with a biographical essay; individual articles then discuss several of each composer's finest and most popular works. Over 190 works are covered in all. The composers include Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mahler, Debussy, R. Strauss, Schoenberg, Ravel, Bart k, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.
