G.F. Handel, 1685-1759 -- J.S. Bach, 1685-1750 -- C.W. Gluck, 1714-1787 -- Josef Hayden, 1732-1809 -- W.A. Mozart, 1756-1791 -- L. van Beethoven, 1770-1828 -- Franz Schubert, 1797-1828 -- Hector Berlioz, 1803-1847 -- Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847 -- Robert Schumann, 1810-1856 -- Richard Wagner, 1813-1833 -- Giuseppe Verdi, 1813-1901 -- Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897 -- P.I. Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893 -- Antonin Dvorak, 1841-1904 -- Edward Elgar, 1857-1943 -- Giacomo Puccini, 1858-1924 -- C.A. Debussy, 1862-1918 -- Frederick Delius, 1862-1934 -- Erik Satie, 1866-1925 -- Gustav Holst, 1874-1934 -- Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971 -- Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911.
Summary
Presents the correspondence of various composers from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and many others write about their music, their hopes and fears, their love, their sadness, and their struggles in realising artistic hopes in a commercial world.
