Robert and Clara Schumann - Their Lives and Music - TTC Video & Audio

In this course by Professor Robert Greenberg you meet the Schumanns - brilliant, gifted, troubled, and unique in the history of music. Robert Schumann (1810–1856) and his wife Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896) have earned a distinct place in the annals of Western music. As a couple with a two-career marriage - he as a pioneering critic and composer, she as one of the leading concert pianists of Europe - they were highly exceptional in their own time though they seem very contemporary in ours.

Tchaikovsky - His Life and Music - TTC Video & Audio lectures

Great Masters: Tchaikovsky—His Life and Music course no. 753 Taught By Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco Performances .
The life of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) exhibits as close a link as you will find anywhere between an artist's inner world and the outward products of that artist's creative activity.

Stravinksy - His Life and Music - TTC Video & Audio

Great Masters: Stravinsky - His Life and Music

course no. 754

Taught By Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley,

San Francisco Performances

Bach and the High Baroque (2011) - TTC Video & Audio Lectures - The Great Courses

Underappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights in the estimation of generations of music lovers. But what is it about his music that makes it great? Composer and musicologist Robert Greenberg helps you hear the extraordinary sweep of Bach's music and understand his compositional language - whether you're a devoted admirer or a casual listener.

Mozart: His Life and Music - TTC Video & Audio Course

He composed his first symphony at the age of 8. His middle name means "loved of God." And Austrian Emperor Joseph II accused his music of having "too many notes." This course is a biographical and musical study of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), who composed more than 600 works of beauty and brilliance in just over 20 years.

Taught by: Robert Greenberg, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Liszt - His Life and Music - TTC Video & Audio Lectures

Musically, Franz Liszt (1811–1886) is one of the most written about but least understood composers of the 19th century. As for his life—Felix Mendelssohn observed that Liszt's character was "a continual alternation between scandal and apotheosis." "Scandal and apotheosis"? What could that possibly mean? Join music professor Robert Greenberg for these lectures, and go on a fascinating journey in search of the truth aboutboth. "Franz Liszt, Both Sides Now," you might call it.

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Stories of Great Composers for Children by Thomas Tapper - Audio + Books (LibriVox)

 

The Child's Own Book of Great Musicians was a series of short books for children about famous composers. They were written by Thomas Tapper, who worked for the music publisher Theodore Presser. These books came as loose pages that were designed to be cut up, put together, and personalized by children. Each book tells about the childhood and great achievements of a composer, and includes a short musical example.

01 Johann Sebastian Bach: The Story of the Boy who Sang in the Streets

02 Mozart: The Story of a Little Boy and his Sister who Gave Concerts

03 Beethoven: The Story of a Little Boy who was Forced to Practice

04 Franz Joseph Haydn: The Story of the Choir Boy who Became a Great Composer

05 Franz Schubert: The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs

06 Handel: The Story of a Little Boy Who Practiced in an Attic

07 Frederic Francois Chopin: The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies

08 Verdi: The Story of the Little Boy Who Loved the Hand Organ

09 Richard Wagner: The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Little Plays

10 Edvard Grieg: The Story of the Boy Who Made Music in the Land of the Midnight Sun

11 Schumann - The Story of the Boy Who Made Pictures in Music (not narrated)

12 Liszt - The Story of a Boy Who Became a Great Pianist and Teacher (not narrated)

Chopin: The Man and His Music - James Huneker (1918) - Audiobook + Book (LibriVox)

A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music writer and critic James Huneker (1860-1921)