100 Great Composers

28 hrs. 46 min.

Popular Science

Language Russian

Author Dmitry Samin

Narrator Natalia Tyoshina

Description

Throughout the history of mankind, music has formed an essential part of people’s lives. From ancient times, it has been a kind of art that has a tremendous emotional impact on a person. "Music is the most poetic, the most powerful, the most living of all kinds of art," wrote H. Berlioz. This book from the series "100 Great" tells about the greatest composers in the history of mankind.

Contents:

001 Josquin Des Prez (1450–1521)
002 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594)
003 Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
004 Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)
005 Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687)
006 Henry Purcell (1658–1695)
007 Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)
008 Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
009 Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
010 Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759)
011 Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
012 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
013 Christoph Willibald Gluck (1713–1787)
014 Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
015 Antonio Salieri (1750–1825)
016 Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky (1751–1825)
017 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
018 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1826)
019 Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837)
020 Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840)
021 Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)
022 Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
023 Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
024 Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
025 Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
026 Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835)
027 Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)
028 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–1857)
029 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809–1847)
030 Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
031 Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
032 Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813–1869)
033 Ferenc Liszt (1811–1886)
034 Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
035 Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
036 Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
037 Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–1872)
038 Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880)
039 Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (1820–1871)
040 César Franck (1822–1890)
041 Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884)
042 Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
043 Johann Strauss (1825–1899)
044 Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829–1894)
045 Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
046 Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (1833–1887)
047 Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
048 Léo Delibes (1836–1891)
049 Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev (1837–1910)
050 Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
051 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
052 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
053 Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
054 Jules Massenet (1842–1912)
055 Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
056 Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
057 Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
058 Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
059 Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov (1855–1914)
060 Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (1856–1915)
061 Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857–1919)
062 Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
063 Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
064 Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
065 Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
066 Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
067 Alexander Tikhonovich Grechaninov (1864–1956)
068 Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865–1936)
069 Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
070 Franz Lehár (1870–1945)
071 Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1872–1915)
072 Sergey Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
073 Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
074 Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
075 Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880–1951)
076 Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
077 Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (1881–1950)
078 Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky (1882–1971)
079 Anton Webern (1883–1945)
080 Imre Kálmán (1882–1953)
081 Alban Berg (1885–1935)
082 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891–1953)
083 Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
084 Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
085 Carl Orff (1895–1982)
086 Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
087 George Gershwin (1898–1937)
088 Isaak Osipovich Dunaevsky (1900–1955)
089 Aram Illich Khachaturian (1903–1978)
090 Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906–1975)
091 Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (born 1913)
092 Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
093 Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (1915–1998)
094 Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
095 Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (born 1932)
096 Krzysztof Penderecki (born 1933)
097 Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (1934–1998)
098 Bob Dylan (born 1941)
099 John Lennon (1940–1980) and Paul McCartney (born 1942)
100 Sting (born 1951)