Composer's letters / edited by Jan Fielden.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Fielden, Jan, editor.

Nicholas, Jeremy, narrator.

Philpott, Daniel, narrator.

De Souza, Edward, 1932- narrator.

Series:

Classic literature with classical music

Naxos Music Library.

Classic literature with classical music. Letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composers--Correspondence.

Composers.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sound file).

Place of Publication:

[Germany?] : Naxos AudioBooks, [1995]

System Details:

digital

audio file

Summary:

Presents the correspondence of various composers from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and many others write about their music, their hopes and fears, their love, their sadness, and their struggles in realising artistic hopes in a commercial world.

Contents:

G.F. Handel, 1685-1759

J.S. Bach, 1685-1750

C.W. Gluck, 1714-1787

Josef Hayden, 1732-1809

W.A. Mozart, 1756-1791

L. van Beethoven, 1770-1828

Franz Schubert, 1797-1828

Hector Berlioz, 1803-1847

Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847

Robert Schumann, 1810-1856

Richard Wagner, 1813-1833

Giuseppe Verdi, 1813-1901

Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897

P.I. Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893

Antonin Dvorak, 1841-1904

Edward Elgar, 1857-1943

Giacomo Puccini, 1858-1924

C.A. Debussy, 1862-1918

Frederick Delius, 1862-1934

Erik Satie, 1866-1925

Gustav Holst, 1874-1934

Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971

Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911.

Participant:

Read by Jeremy Nicholas, Daniel Philpott, Edward de Souza, and others; with instrumental accompaniment.

Notes:

Hard copy version record.

Other Format:

Source record: Composer's letters.

OCLC:

1362899602

Publisher Number:

HKD849503015

HKD849503016

HKD849503017

HKD849503018

HKD849503019

HKD849503020

HKD849503021

HKD849503022

HKD849503023

HKD849503014

NA203012 Naxos AudioBooks

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.