Music #390 - THE LATER ROMANTICS

A great book on ...

THE GREAT COMPOSERS

written by Wendy Thompson

published by Hermes House

The Later Romantics

Music Sets #391 - 409

Music on the Grand Scale:-

* Two musical giants 

dominated the second half of the 19th century
     Johannes Brahms - belonging to mainstream German symphonic tradition
     Richard Wagner - mainly operatic works; forceful and influential. (Richard Strauss, Bruckner and Mahler owe an enormous debt to Wagner.)

* Italian opera

     Giuseppe Verdi - took on the mantle of Rossini
     Giacomo Puccini - successor of Verdi

* Nationalism  - in full swing

     Mahler in Austria
     Sibelius in Finland
     Faure & Saint-Saens in France
     Elgar in England
     Rachmaninov in Russia

Source: The Great Composers