Great Composers

"The greatness of art is most clearly manifested in music," wrote Goethe. And are there any geniuses more celebrated through the ages than the great composers?
This book is a guide to the history of musical art through stories about the fate and creativity of composers and their legendary operas, operettas, symphonies, and waltzes. Here you will find biographies of 35 great composers from the 17th to the 20th century, classics of Russian and European musical art. Bach and Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin, Glinka and Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, Dunaevsky and Gershwin, and many other composers will appear before you on the pages of this beautifully illustrated gift book in all the richness and complexity of their lives and works.