Schonberg brings the reader closer to an identification with the composers he discusses and thus closer to an understanding of their music. The book consequentl
'A glorious plum-pudding of a book, to be consulted, with pleasure and profit, over and over again' Sir Jeremy Isaacs Michael Steen's 'Great Composers' was orig
From the romantic agonies of Berlioz to the lonely labours of Anton Bruckner, the lives of the great composers are as varied and multifaceted as the works of cr