The lives and times of the great composers

Prelude

Handel (1685-1759)

Bach (1685-1750)

Haydn (1732-1809)

Mozart (1756-91)

Beethoven (1770-1827)

Schubert (1797-1828)

Rossini (1792-1868)

Meyerbeer, Bellini, and Donizetti

Berlioz (1803-69)

Mendelssohn (1809-47)

Chopin (1810-49)

Schumann (1810-56)

Liszt (1811-86)

Wagner (1813-83)

Offenbach and Johann Strauss

Verdi (1813-1901)

Brahms (1833-97)

Bizet (1838-75)

Late-19th-Century France : Franck, Saint-Saëns and Fauré

Russian Composers : Glinka and the Five

Tchaikovsky (1840-93)

Central-European nationalists : Smetana, Dvořak, Janácek and Bartók

Scandinavian nationalists : Grieg and Sibelius

Mahler (1860-1911)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Debussy (1862-1918)

Puccini (1858-1924)

The Russian Sequel

England : Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten

Postlude.