The Rough Guide to Classical Music is the ideal handbook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to contemporaries such as Thomas Ades and Kaija Saariaho. Both a music buyer's guide and a who's who, the guide includes concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics.
Binding
Paperback / softback

Release Title
The Rough Guide to Classical Music

Artist
Rough Guides

Book Title
Rough Guide to Classical Music

Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated

Edition
5

Publication Year
2010

Format
UK-B Format Paperback

Language
English

Author
Rough Guides Staff, Joe Staines