Western Classical Music

This book introduces you to Western Classical Music. It tells you about the great composers and their compositions. Included among the great composers are JS Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Handel. Other composers are sorted countrywise; Italian (Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Scarlatti. etc) French (Berlioz, Debussy. Ravel, etc), German (Schumann, Wagner, Brahms, Strauss), Russian (Mussorgsky., Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, etc), English (Purcell, Elgar, Britten), and Americans (Joplin, Gershwin., Copland). Also included are great pianists, violinist and instrumentalists such as Vladimir Ashkenazy and Yehudi Menuhin. The book deals with great conductors (Toscanini, Furtwängler, Herbert Van Karajan, etc). The book deals with classical music in movies and in literature. Included are interesting trivia on classical music, such as composer who was known as the Red Priest and what is Beethoven's Sixth Symphony better known as? In short, this book touches on all aspects of classical music. The book is replete with interesting quiz questions of classical music.