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Short biographies of classical composers and musicians, and a list of their compositions, with an index at the end of the book. The Notre Dame Mass / Guillaume de Machaut -- Quam Pulcra es Veni Sancte Spiritus / John Dunstable -- Ave Regina Coelorum Missa Caput Chansons / Guillame Dufay -- L'Homme arme Ave Maria / Josquin des Pres -- The Seven Penitential Psalms of David Motets / Orlando de Lasso -- Variaitons, for Organ Fantasias, for organ / Jan Sweelinck -- Sacrae symphoniae Canzoni, for organ or instruments Sonata Pian' e Forte / Giovanni Gabrieli -- Missa Papae Marcelli Missa Assumpta Est Maria Missa Brevis Stabat Mater / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- O Vos omnes Requiem Mass / Tomas Luis de Victoria -- I Piango ed ella il volto Strider faceva Solo e pensoro / Luca Marenzio -- Moro lasso al mio duolo Resta di darmi noia / Carlo Gesualdo -- L'Amfiparnaso / Orazio Vecchi -- Madrigals Compositions for virginal / William Byrd -- Madrigals Balletts / Thomas Morley -- Madrigals / John Wilbye -- Fantasias, for three viols The Earl of Salisbury Madrigals / Orlando Gibbons -- Compositions for virginal / John Bull -- Songs (or Ayres) with lute / John Dowland -- Dafne Euridice / Jacopo Peri -- La Rappresentazione di anima e di corpo / Emilio de' Cavalieri -- La Favola d'Orfeo Madrigals L' Incoronazione di Poppea / Claudio Monteverdi -- Jepthe / Giacomo Carissimi -- Motets Die sieben Worte Jesu Christe am Kreuz The Passion According to St. Matthew / Heinrich Schuetz -- Fiori musicali / Girolamo Frescobaldi -- Choral preludes, for organ Church Cantatas Chaconne in E minor, for organ / Dietrich Buxtehude -- Sonatas for violin and figured bass Concerti grossi, op. 6 / Arcangelo Corelli -- Armide et Renaud / Jean-Baptiste Lully -- Fantasias, for viols Sonata in F major Chaconne in G minor Dido and Aeneas King Arthur / Henry Purcell -- Il Trionfo dell' onore Sonata a Quattro in D minor Stabat Mater / Alessandro Scarlatti -- Der Striet zwischen David und Goliath / Johann Kuhnau -- La Sultane Lecons des Tenebres Apotheose de Lulli Concert Royaux No. 2 in D major Pieces de clavecin / Francois Couperin-le-Grand -- Sonatas, for harpsichord The Good-Humored Ladies / Domenico Scarlatti -- Violin Concerto in A minor Concerto Grosso in D minor, op. 3, no. 11 Judith Triumphans The Four Seasons Violin Concerto in G minor Gloria Mass / Antonio Vivaldi -- Don Quichotte Suite in A minor Die Tageszeiten Fantasias, for harpsichord / Georg Philipp Telemann -- Fugue in G minor Capriccio Written on the Departure of a Favorite Brother Church Cantatas Organ Compositions Secular Cantatas Concertos for one and two violins and orchestra Suites, for orchestra 6 Violin sonatas 3 Violin sonatas, unaccompanied 3 Violin Partitas, unaccompanied 3 Cello Sonatas 6 Cello suites, unaccompanied Inventions Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue The Well-Tempered Clavier 6 Brandenburg Concertos 6 English Suites 6 French Suiets The Passion According to St. John Magnificat in D major Jesu, meine Freude The Passion According to St. Matthew Concertos for clavier and orchestra Other concertos for solo instruments and orchestra 6 Partitas, for clavier Italian Concerto Mass in B minor Christmas Oratorio Easter Oratorio Goldberg Variations A Musical Offering Compositions for Organ Concertos for Two Claviers and Orchestra The Art of the Fugue The Wise and Foolish Virgins / Johann Sebastian Bach Rinaldo Water Music 6 Concerti grossi, op. 3 The Harmonious Blacksmith Acis and Galatea Giulio Cesare Rodelinda Alcina Alexander's Feast Ode for St. Cecilia's Day Saul Israel in Egypt 12 Concerti grossi, op. 6 L'Allegro, Il Penseros ed Il Moderato Messiah Dettingen Te Deum Semele Judas Maccabaeus Solomon The Royal Fireworks Music Concertos for organ and orchestra The Gods go A-Begging The Great Elopement The Origin of Design / George Frideric Handel -- Pieces de clavecin Les Indes galantes Castro et Pollux 5 Pieces de clavecin en concert / Jean-Phillippe Rameau -- Concerto Grosso in G minor Symphony No. 3 in G major / Francesco Geminiani -- Devil's Trill Sonata Violin Sonata in G minor Violin Concerto in D minor Cello Concerto in A major / Giuseppe Tartini -- La Serva pandrona Salve Regina Stabat Mater / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi -- Orfeo ed Euridice Alceste Iphigenie en Aulide Iphigenie en Tauride 2 Ballet Suites / Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Symphonies / Johann Stamitz -- Magnificat in D minor Sinfonia No. 3 in C major Sonatas for piano Concerto in D major, for orchestra / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- 12 Polonaises Piano Sonata in G major / Wilhelm Friedemann Bach -- Symphony in C, Le Midi 6 String Quartets, op. 3 Capriccio in G major Der Apotheker Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor, Farewell Symphony No. 48 in C major, Maria Theresa Symphony No. 55 in E-flat major, The Schoolmaster 6 "Sun Quartets, op. 20 Il Mondo della Luna Symphony No. 67 in F major Piano Sonatas 6 Russian Quartets, op. 33 Mariazellermesse Cello Concerto in D major Harpsichord Concerto in D major The Seven Last Words of the Saviour on the Cross 6 "Paris" Symphonies 6 "Prussian" Quartets, op. 50 Symphony No. 88 in G major Symphony No. 92 in G major, Oxford Toy Symphony 12 "Tost" Quartets, op. 54, op. 55, op. 64 Fantasia in C, for piano 12 "London" Symphonies Sinfonie concertante in B-flat majro Variations in F minor, for piano Gypsy Rondo Masses Austrian National Anthem The Creation 6 "Erdoedy" Quartets, op. 76 The Seasons / Joseph Haydn -- Symphony No. 1 in E-flat Sonatas for Organ and Orchestra Bastien and Bastienne La Finta semplice Symphony No. 8 in F major Symphony No. 25 in G minor Exultate, Jubilate String Quartet in C major String Quartet in F major String Quartet in D minor Concertos for various wind instruments and orchestra Symphony No. 29 in A major Symphony No. 30 in D major La Finta giardiniera 3 Concertos for violin and orchestra Missa Brevis in C Concert Arias 3 Divertimenti 3 Serenades Flute Quartet in D major 4 Piano Sonatas 2 Violin Sonatas 2 Sinfonia concertante Symphony No. 31 in D major, Paris Symphony No. 34 in C major Compositions for piano Coronation Mass Concerto in E-flat for two pianos Vesperae solennes de confessore Idomeneo Oboe Quartet in F major Violin Sonata in G major The Abduction from the Seraglio Horn Quintet in E-flat 5 Piano Concertos Symphony No. 35 in D major Haffner Symphony No. 36 in C major Linz 6 "Haydn" Quartets Mass in C minor The Great Adagio and Fugue in C minor Compositions for piano 3 Violin Sonatas 3 Piano Concertos 2 Piano Quartets Songs Sonata in F major, for gour hands The Marriage of Figaro 2 Piano Concertos String Quartet in D major Symphony No. 38 in D major, Prague 2 Concert arias 2 String Quintets A Musical Joke Eine kleine Nacht-musik Don Giovanni Compositions for piano Piano Trio in E major Country Dances German Dances Piano Concerto in D major, Coronation Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major Symphony No. 40 in G minor Symphony No. 41 in C major, Jupiter Divertimento in E-flat jamor 3 Piano Sonatas Clarinet Quintet in A major 3 "Prussian" Quartets Cosi fan tutte 2 String Quartets Piano Concerto in B-flat major The Magic Flute La Clemenza di Tito Ave Verum Requiem / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Il Matrimonio sergreto Oboe Concerto / Domenico Cimarosa -- 2 String Quartets Cello Concerto in B-flat major Symphony in A major Scuola di Ballo / Luigi Boccherini -- Violin Concerto in A minor 2 String Quartets -- Sextet in E-flat major Octet in E-flat major 2 Piano Concertos Compositions for solo piano Songs Ah, Perfido! 2 Piano Sonatas 6 "Lobkowitz" Quartets, op. 18 Septet in E-lfat major Third Piano Concerto in C major Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus 2 Symphonies 3 Piano Sonatas 12 Contretaenze 5 Violin Sonatas Piano Sonata in D minor, op. 31, no. 2 Christ on Mt. Olives 2 Romances 3 Piano Sonatas Symphony No. 3, Eroica Piano-violin-cello concerto in C major Leonore Overtures, Nos. 1, 2, 3 Fidelio Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major 3 "Rasoumovsky" Quartets, op. 59 Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major Violin Concerto in D major Coriolon Overture Symphony No. 5 in C minor Mass in C major 2 Piano Trios Fantasy in C major, for piano, chorus and orchestra Cello Sonata in A major Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Emperor 2 String Quartets Piano sonata in E-flat major Overture and Incidental Music to Egmont Piano Trio in B-flat major, Archduke Symphony No. 7 in a major Symphony No. 8 in F major Violin Sonata in G major 2 Cello Sonatas The Last Piano Sonatas Thirty-three Variations Missa solemnis Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Choral The Last String Quartets Grosse Fuge / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Medea The Water Carrier Overture to Anacreon Symphony in D major Mass in C minor / Luigi Cherubini -- 2 String Quartets 3 Symphonies Individual songs Mass in G major 2 Symphonies Dances, for solo piano Violin Sonata in A major Pymphony No. 6 in C major Quintet in A major, Die Forelle Piano Sonata in A major Statz Quarter Symphony No. 8 in B minor, Unfinished Overture and Incidental Music to Rosamunde Piano Sonata in A minor Die schoene Muellerin Die Winterriese 6 Moments musicaux Cello Sonata in A minor Grand Duo in C major Octet in F major 3 String Quartets Piano Sonata in D major 2 Impromptus 2 Piano Trios Fantasy in F minor, for piano duet 3 Piano Sonatas , Posthumous Symphony No. 9 in C major, Great String Quintet in C major Mass in E-flat major Schwanengesang / Franz Schubert L'Italiana in Algeri The Barber of Seville La Cenerentola La Gazza ladra Semiramide William Tell Stabat Mater Petite messe solennelle La Boutique fantasque Soirees musicales Matinees musicales / Giocchino Rossini -- L'Elisir d'amore Lucia di Lammermoor La Fille du regiment La Favorita Don Pasquale / Gaetano Donizetti -- La Sonnambula Norma I Puritani / Vincenzo Bellini -- Robert le diable Les Huguenots Le Prophete L'Africaine / Giacomo Meyerbeer -- Jubel Overture Invitation to the Dance Der Freischuerz Konzertstueck in F minor and major, for piano and orchestra Euryanthe Oberon / Carl Maria von Weber -- Le Postillon de Longjumeau Giselle Overture to Si j'etais roi / Adolphe Adam -- La Muette de Portici Fra Diavolo / Daniel Francois Auber -- Violin Concerto in D major 24 Caprices / Niccolo Paganini -- 3 Ballads Songs / Karl Loewe -- Songs / Robert Franz -- La Juive / Jacques Halevy -- Symphonie fantastique King Lear Le Corsaire Overture to Benvenuto Cellini Harold en Italie Grand Messe des morts Romeo et Juliette Roman Carnival Overture The Damnation of Faust Te Deum L'Enfance du Christ Les Troyens Beatrice et Benedict / Hector Berlioz -- A Life for the Tsar Ruslan and Ludmila Jota aragonesa Night in Madrid Kamarinskaya / Mikhail Glinka -- Octet in E-flat major Midsummer Might's Dream, Overture String Quartet in E-flat major Rondo capriccioso Capriccio brilliant Songs without Words Symphony No. 5 in D major, Reformation Piano Concerto in G minor Fingal's Cave Calm Sea nd Prosperous Voyage Fair Melusina Symphony No. 4 in A major, Italian St. Paul Ruy Blas Variations serieuses Symphony No. 3 in A minor-major, Scotch A Midsummer Night's Dream, Incidental Music Violin Concert in E minor Elijah / Felix Mendelssohn -- Compostitions for solo piano Etudes symphoniques Carnaval Fantasy in C major Davidsbuendlertaenze Fantaisiestuecke Kinderscenen Kreisleriana Novelletten Piano Sonata in G monor Compositions for solo piano Individual songs Liederkreis Frauenlieve und Leben Dichterliebe Symphony No. 1 in B-flat, Spring Overture, Scherzo and Finale Symphony No. 4 in D minor String Quartet in A major Piano Quintet in E-flat major Piano Quartet in E-flat major Piano Concert in A minor Symphohy No. 2 in C major Piano Trio in D major Genoveve, Overture Album fuer die Jugend Manfred, Overture Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major Rhenish Cello Concerto in A minor / Robert Schumann -- Polonaises Introduction to Polonaise, for cello and piano Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante Mazurkas 2 Piano Concertos Etudes Waltzes Nocturnes Scherzos Impromptus Ballades Preludes 2 Piano Sonatas Berceuse in D-flat Barcarolle in F-sharp minor Les Sylphides / Frederic Chopin -- Annees de perlerinage Etudes Songs Hungarian Rhapsodies 2 Piano Concerts Totentanz Compositions for solo piano Mazeppa Tasso Les Preludes Orpheus A Symphony to Dant'es Divine Comedy A Faust Symphony Hungarian Fantasy, for piano and orchestra Mephisto Waltz Compositions for solo piano / Franz Liszt -- A Faust Overture Rienzi Overture The Flying Dutchman Tannhaeuser Lohengrin Five Wesendock Songs The Ring of the Nibelungs Tristan and Isolde The Mastersingers of Nuremberg A Siegfried Idyl Parsifal / Richard Wagner -- Nabucco I Lombardi Ernani Macbeth Luisa Miller Rigoletto Il Trovatore La Traviata I Vespri siciliani Simon Boccanegra Un Ballo in maschera La Forza del destino Don Carlo Aida String Quartet in E minor Manzoni Requiem Otello Falstaff / Giuseppe Verdi -- Mefistofele / Arrigo Boito -- The Merry Wives of Windsor / Otto Nicolai -- Martha / Friedrich Von Flotow -- Raymond Overture Mignon Hamlet / Ambroise Thomas -- Orpheus in Hades La Belle Helene La Perichole Tales of Hoffman Gaiete parissienne / Jacques Offenbach -- Overtures for Orchestra Beautiful Galatea Boccaccio / Franz Von Suppe -- Concert Waltzes Die Fledermaus They Gypsy Baron / Johann Strauss II -- Redemption Les Eolides Piano Quintet in F minor :Les Beatitudes Le Chasseur maudit Compositions for solo piano Les Djinns Variations symphoniques, for piano and orchestra Violin Sonata in A major Psyche Symphony in D minor String Quartet in D major Three Chorales for organ / Cesar Franck -- Songs Faust Romeo et Juliette Marche funebre d'une marionnette La redemption Mors et vita / Charles Gounod -- Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra Overture to Le Roi d'Ys Cello Concerto in D minor Rapsodie norvegienne / Edouard Lalo -- Coppelia Sylvia Lakme / Leo Delibes -- Symphony in C major Danse bohemienne Jeux d'enfants L'Arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2 La Patrie Carmen / Georges Bizet -- 3 Masses Symphony No. 3 in D minor, "Wagner" Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major, "Romantic" Symphony No. 6 in A major Symphony No. 7 in E major Te Deum Psalm CL Symphony No. 8 in C minor Symphony No. 9 in D minor / Anton Bruckner -- Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Piano Trio in B major Compositions for solo piano Piano Concerto in D minor Songs Serenade No. 2 in A major 2 Piano Quartets Solo compositions for piano String Sextet in B-flat major, "Agathe" Waltzes, for piano Horn Trio in E-flat A German Requiem : Hungarian Dances for piano duet Liebeslieder Waltzes Alto Rhapsody Song of Fate Song of Triumph Variations on a Theme by Haydn Piano Quartet in C minor 3String Quartets Symphony No. 1 in C minor Symphony No. 2 in D major Compositions for solo piano Violin Concerto in D major Violin Sonata in G major, "Rain" 2 Rhapsodies, for piano Academic Festival Overture Tragic Overture Naenie Song of the Fates Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major String Quintet in F major Symphony No. 3 in F major Symphony No. 4 in E minor Piano Trio in C minor 2 Violin Sonatas Cello Sonata in F major Concerto in A minor for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra Zigeuenerlieder String Quintet in G major Clarinet Trio in A minor Clarinet Quintet in B minor Compositions for piano 2Clarinet Sonatas Four Serious Song / Johannes Brahms -- Overture on Russian Themes Songs islamey Tamara Russia / Mily Balakirev -- Symphony No. 2 in B minor On the Steppes of Central Asia String Quartet in D major Prince Igor / Alexander Borodin -- Scherzo in B-flat major Intermezzo-In Modo classico The Nursery Sunless Songs and Dances of Death Boris Godunov Khovantchina Pictures at an Exhibition A Night on Bald Mountain Hopak / Modest Mussorgsky -- Songs Symphony No. 2, "Antar" Overture to May Night The Snow Maiden Capriccio espagnol Scheherazade Russian Easter Overture Sadko / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- Compositions for piano Songs Romeo and Juliet String Quartet in D major Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Little Russia" The Tempest Piano Concerto in B-flat minor Compositions for violin and piano Symphony No. 3 in D major, "Polish" The Swan Lake Marche Slave Francesca da Rimini Variations on a Rococo Theme, for cello and orchestra Violin Concerto in D major Symphony No. 4 in F minor Eugene Onegin The Sleeping Beauty Aurora's Wedding Piano Overture 1812 Piano Trio in A minor Suite No. 3 in g major for orchestra Manfred Mozartiana Symphony No. 5 in E minor Hmalet Pique-Dame The Nutcracker Symphony No.6 in B minor, "Pathetique" / Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D minor Violin Concerto in A minor / Henri Vieuxtemps -- Violin Concerto in D minor Compositions for Violin / Henir Wieniawski -- Sakuntala The Queen of Sheba Rustic Wedding Symphony Violin Concert in A minor / Karl Goldmark -- Violin Concerto in G minor Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra Kol Nidrei / Max Bruch -- The Bartered Bride My Fatherland String Quartet in E minor, "From My Life" / Bedrich Smetana -- Stabat Mater 8 Slavonic Dances, for piano duet Themes and Variations for piano 3 Slavonic Rhapsodies Violin Concerto in A minor Symphony No.1 in D major Gypsy Songs 10 Legends Scherzo capriccioso From the Bohemian Forest, for piano duet Symphony No. 2 in D minor Piano Quintet in A major Symphony No. 4 in G major Requiem Dumky Trio In Nature Carnival Othello Symphony No. 5 in E minor, "From the New World" String Quartet in F major, " American" String Quintet in E-flat major Sonatina in G major for violin and piano Biblical Songs 8 Humoresques, for piano Cello Concerto in B minor The WIld Dove The Hero's Song / Antonin Dvorak -- Songs In the Autumn Lyric Pieces, for piano Violin Sonata in G major Piano COncerto in A minor Sigurd Jorsalfar Ballade in G minor for piano Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 String Quartet in G minor Two Elegiac Melodies Four Norwegian Dances, for piano duet Holberg Suite Violin Sonata in C minor Two Northern Meoldies / Edvard Grieg -- Les Erinnyes Scenes pittoresques Overture to Phedre Scenes alsaciennes Manon Le Cid ballad music Werther Thais / Jules Massenet -- Suite pastorale Espana Trois valses romantiques, for two pianos Overture to Gwendoline Le Roi malgre lui Joyeuse marche Bourree fantasque for piano / Emmanuel Chabrier -- Symphony in B-flat Concerto in D major for violin, piano, and string quartet Poeme, for biolin and orchestra String Quartet in A major / Ernest Chausson -- Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Introduction and Rondo capriccioso Le Rouet d'Omphale Phaeton Danse macabre La Jeunesse d'Hercule Marche heroique Cello Concerto in A minor Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor Prelude to The Deluge Samson and Delilah Suite Algerienne Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor Septet Ballet Music from Henry VIII Symphony No. 3 in C minor The Carnival for Animals Havanaise / Camille Saint-Saens -- Songs Violin Sonata in A major Ballade in F-sharp minor for piano and orchestra Compositions for solo piano Piano Quartet in G minor Messe de Requiem Pavane Pelleas et Melisande / Gabriel Faure -- Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Symphony No. 1 in D major Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection" Symphony No. 3in D minor / Gustav Mahler -- Penthesilea Italian Serenade The Moerike Song Book The Goethe Song Book The Spanish Song Book The Italian Song Book Der Corregidor Michelangelo Lieder / Hugo Wolf -- Stenka Razin Five Novelettes, for string quartet Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Valses de concert Carnival Overture Scenes de ballet Symphony No. 6 in C minor Raymonda / Alexander Glazunov -- La Gioconda / Amilcare Ponchielli -- Cavalleria rusticana L'Amico Fritz / Pietro Mascagni -- Pagliacci / Ruggiero Leoncavallo -- Manon Lescaut La Boheme / Giacomo Puccini -- Andrea Chenier Fedora / Umberto Giordano -- Hansel and Gretel Moorish Rhapsody Die Koenigskinder / Engelbert Humperdinck -- Adagio for strings Violin Sonata in G major Fantaisie sur deux airs populaires angevins Trois poemes, for voice and piano Piano Quartet in B minor / Guillaume Lekeu -- Compositions for Solo Piano / Erik Satie Songs La Demoiselle elue Compositions for solo piano String Quartet in G minor The Afternoon of a Faun Three Nocturnes / Claude Debussy -- Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Indian Suite Woodland Sketches / Edward Macdowell -- Songs Burleske Macbeth Don Juan Death and Transfiguration Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Thus Spake Zarathustra Don Quixote A Hero's Life / Richard Strauss.