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256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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English
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An authoritative guide to the lives and works of over 100 of the most famous classical composers, encompassing all styles of composition from medieval times to the present day. Including biographies for each composer, and historical information about the musical eras, events and artistic movements of that time, also how the composers influenced or changed the development of their art form.
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Great Composers volume 4
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of Joseph Haydn. Music performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Constantine Krimets. Featuring: Vladimir Spivakov.
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Great Composers volume 9
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of Johannes Brahms. Music performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Constantine Krimets. Featuring: Anton Martynov on Violin.
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Great Composers volume 11
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of Edvard Grieg. Music performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Constantine Krimets. Featuring: Naim Starkmann on Piano.
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Great Composers volume 7
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of Felix Mendelssohn. Music performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Constantine Krimets. Featuring: Ilya Konovalov on Violin.
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Great Composers volume 1
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of Antonio Vivaldi. Music performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Constantine Krimets. Featuring: Jaroslav Krasnikov on Violin and Pavel Laverenkov on Flute.
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Great Composers volume 8
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of Frederic Chopin. Music performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Constantine Krimets. Featuring: Vladimir Ryabov, Alexander Maluks on Piano, and Anna Malikova (Piano Concerto).
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Great Composers volume 6
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven. Music performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Constantine Krimets. Extracts From: Symphonies 9 and 5, Moonlight Sonata, Egmont Overture, and Pathetique Sonata.
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Great Composers volume 3
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Music performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Constantine Krimets. Featuring: The Russian Portess Choir.
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Great Composers volume 10
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Music performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Constantine Krimets. Featuring: Arkedii Sevidov on Piano, and the brass band of the Bolshoi Ballet.
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Great Composers volume 5
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Music performed by The Moscow Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Constantine Krimets. Featuring: Tatanya Monogarova (Soprano), and Elena Gilels on Piano.
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Great Composers volume 2
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of George Frideric Handel. Music performed by Regency Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Stephen Dodsworth. Featuring: Angela Kazimierczule (Soprano), Rupert Jennings (Tenor), and Serena Kay (Contralto).
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vi, 253 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Many women composers were successful, finding venues for both publishing and performing their music; others found the social barriers for women impossible to overcome. Arranged chronologically by era, each section is divided into countries. For each female composer within a country, a brief biographical sketch is provided, as well as a description of her body of work."--Provided by publisher.
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xx, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Borum provides valuable guidance on how to make a good film score both quickly and inexpensively. With insights from professional composers, this handbook encompasses the entire film scoring process including education, preparation, writing and recording a score, editing, mixing and mastering, finding work, career development, and sample contracts.
17) Women Composers
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English
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An examination of the historical and personal circumstances under which three remarkable women created their works in the 1800s and early 1900s.
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English
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In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and many more talk openly about their music, their hopes and fears, their love, their sadness and their struggles in realising their artistic hopes in a commercial world. Poignant, funny, revealing, informative and so often direct and honest, these...
20) Famous Composers
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English
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Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Marin Alsop combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvo?ák and Shostakovich. Their colourful lives and their love of music is told against the backdrop of some of their finest works – an ideal combination.
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