[PDF] Story Lives Of Master Musicians Yesterdays Classics eBook

Author : Harriette Brower
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 2015-05-14
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ISBN : 9781512201567

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The preparation of this classical music guide, The World's Great Men of Music, began with a period of delightful research work in a great musical library. As a honey-bee flutters from flower to flower, culling sweetness from many blossoms, so the compiler of such stories as these must gather facts from many sources--from biography, letters, journals and musical history. Then, impressed with the personality and individual achievement of each composer, the author has endeavored to present his life story. Contents: Palestrina -- John Sebastian Bach -- George Frederick Handel -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Josef Haydn -- Wolfgang Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Franz Schubert -- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Robert Schumann -- Frederic Chopin -- Hector Berlioz -- Franz Liszt -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Richard Wagner -- Cesar Franck -- Johannes Brahms -- Edward Grieg -- Peter Ilyitch Tschaikowsky -- Edward MacDowell -- Claude Achille Debussy -- Arturo Toscanini -- Leopold Stokowsky -- Serge Koussevitzky.

Author : Harriette Brower
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2018-07-04
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ISBN : 9781722321819

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The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Harriette Brower I PALESTRINA To learn something of the life and labors of Palestrina, one of the earliest as well as one of the greatest musicians, we must go back in the world's history nearly four hundred years. And even then we may not be able to discover all the events of his life as some of the records have been lost. But we have the main facts, and know that Palestrina's name will be revered for all time as the man who strove to make sacred music the expression of lofty and spiritual meaning. Upon a hoary spur of the Apennines stands the crumbling town of Palestrina. It is very old now; it was old when Rome was young. Four hundred years ago Palestrina was dominated by the great castle of its lords, the proud Colonnas. Naturally the town was much more important in those days than it is to-day. At that time there lived in Palestrina a peasant pair, Sante Pierluigi and his wife Maria, who seem to have been an honest couple, and not grindingly poor, since the will of Sante's mother has lately been found, in which she bequeathed a house in Palestrina to her two sons. Besides this she left behind a fine store of bed linen, mattresses and cooking utensils. Maria Gismondi also had a little property. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : Brower Harriette
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
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ISBN : 9781318733378

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.