A Guide to the Lives and Works of the Great Composers from the Romantic Era.
This beautifully illustrated guide to the most influential composers of the Romantic Period encompasses both detailed biographies as well as placing their most important works into historical context.
Full-colour photographs also show where they lived and worked as well as scenes from their ballets or operas. At-a-glance fact boxes summarize the composers' key works and specialist genres. Includes biographies on such well known Romantic composers as Holst, Tchaikovsky, Liszt and Schumann.