The Lighter Classics in Music / A Comprehensive Guide to Musical Masterworks in a Lighter Vein by 187 Composers
by David Ewen
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Chapters (191)
- The Lighter Classics in Music
- Joseph Achron
- Adolphe-Charles Adam
- Richard Addinsell
- Isaac Albéniz
- Hugo Alfvén
- Louis Alter
- Leroy Anderson
- Daniel François Auber
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Michael Balfe
- Hubert Bath
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Vincenzo Bellini
- Ralph Benatzky
- Arthur Benjamin
- Robert Russell Bennett
- Hector Berlioz
- Leonard Bernstein
- Georges Bizet
- Luigi Boccherini
- François Boieldieu
- Giovanni Bolzoni
- Carrie Jacobs Bond
- Alexander Borodin
- Felix Borowski
- Johannes Brahms
- Charles Wakefield Cadman
- Lucien Caillet
- Alfredo Catalani
- Otto Cesana
- Emmanuel Chabrier
- George Chadwick
- Cécile Chaminade
- Gustave Charpentier
- Frédéric Chopin
- Eric Coates
- Peter Cornelius
- Noel Coward
- César Cui
- Claude Debussy
- Léo Delibes
- Gregore Dinicu
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Franz Drdla
- Riccardo Drigo
- Arcady Dubensky
- Paul Dukas
- Antonin Dvořák
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Duke Ellington
- Georges Enesco
- Leo Fall
- Manuel de Falla
- Gabriel Fauré
- Friedrich Flotow
- Stephen Foster
- Rudolf Friml
- Julius Fučík
- Sir Edward German
- George Gershwin
- Henry F. Gilbert
- Don Gillis
- Alberto Ginastera
- Alexander Glazunov
- Reinhold Glière
- Michael Glinka
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Benjamin Godard
- Leopold Godowsky
- Edwin Franko Goldman
- Karl Goldmark
- Rubin Goldmark
- François Gossec
- Louis Gottschalk
- Morton Gould
- Charles Gounod
- Percy Grainger
- Enrique Granados
- Edvard Grieg
- Ferde Grofé
- David Guion
- Johan Halvorsen
- George Frederick Handel
- Joseph Haydn
- Victor Herbert
- Ferdinand Hérold
- Jenö Hubay
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Jacques Ibert
- Michael Ippolitov-Ivanov
- Ivanovici
- Armas Järnefelt
- Dmitri Kabalevsky
- Emmerich Kálmán
- Kéler-Béla
- Jerome Kern
- Albert Ketelby
- Aram Khatchaturian
- George Kleinsinger
- Fritz Kreisler
- Édouard Lalo
- Josef Lanner
- Charles Lecocq
- Ernesto Lecuona
- Franz Lehár
- Ruggiero Leoncavallo
- Anatol Liadov
- Paul Lincke
- Franz Liszt
- Frederick Loewe
- Albert Lortzing
- Alexandre Luigini
- Hans Christian Lumbye
- Edward MacDowell
- Albert Hay Malotte
- Gabriel Marie
- Martini il Tedesco
- Pietro Mascagni
- Jules Massenet
- Robert McBride
- Harl McDonald
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Karl Milloecker
- Moritz Moszkowski
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Ethelbert Nevin
- Otto Nicolai
- Siegfried Ochs
- Jacques Offenbach
- Ignace Jan Paderewski
- Gabriel Pierné
- Jean-Robert Planquette
- Eduard Poldini
- Manuel Ponce
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Cole Porter
- Serge Prokofiev
- Giacomo Puccini
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Joachim Raff
- Maurice Ravel
- Emil von Rezniček
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Richard Rodgers
- Sigmund Romberg
- David Rose
- Gioacchino Rossini
- Anton Rubinstein
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Pablo de Sarasate
- Franz Schubert
- Robert Schumann
- Cyril Scott
- Jean Sibelius
- Christian Sinding
- Leone Sinigaglia
- Bedřich Smetana
- John Philip Sousa
- Oley Speaks
- Robert Stolz
- Oscar Straus
- Eduard Strauss
- Johann Strauss I
- Johann Strauss II
- Josef Strauss
- Sir Arthur Sullivan
- Franz von Suppé
- Johan Svendsen
- Deems Taylor
- Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
- Ambroise Thomas
- Enrico Toselli
- Sir Paolo Tosti
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Richard Wagner
- Emil Waldteufel
- Karl Maria von Weber
- Kurt Weill
- Jaromir Weinberger
- Henri Wieniawski
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Jacques Wolfe
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- Sebastián Yradier
- Carl Zeller
- Karl Michael Ziehrer
- An Alphabetical Listing of the Lighter Classics in Music
- Ewen’s LIGHTER CLASSICS IN MUSIC
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