HENLEY, D.: Story of Classical Music (The) (UK version) [electronic resource]

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The Story of Classical Music ( 02 min., 14 sec. ) -- The Year 600: Music in Churches ( 02 min., 06 sec. ) -- Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) ( 02 min., 31 sec. ) -- Medieval to Renaissance: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594) ( 02 min., 37 sec. ) -- The Birth of Opera: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) / Franciscus Bossinensis (fl. 1510) ( 03 min., 45 sec. ) -- Into the 17th Century: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) ( 03 min., 04 sec. ) -- London: Henry Purcell (1659-1695) ( 02 min., 10 sec. ) -- Germany: Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) ( 02 min., 05 sec. ) -- Italy: Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1715) ( 02 min., 04 sec. ) -- Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) ( 06 min., 51 sec. ) -- George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) ( 08 min., 03 sec. ) -- Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1750) ( 02 min., 16 sec. ) -- Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) ( 04 min., 30 sec. ) -- The Classical Period: An Explanation ( 01 min., 56 sec. ) -- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) ( 01 min., 24 sec. ) -- Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) ( 01 min., 33 sec. ) -- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) ( 06 min., 21 sec. ) -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) ( 05 min., 21 sec. ) -- Mozart's great works ( 05 min., 33 sec. ) -- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) ( 04 min., 22 sec. ) -- Beethoven's great works ( 04 min., 58 sec. ) -- Background History ( 02 min., 22 sec. ) -- The composer as a star ( 01 min., 28 sec. ) -- Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840) ( 02 min., 48 sec. ) -- Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) ( 02 min., 04 sec. ) -- Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) ( 02 min., 04 sec. ) -- Franz Schubert (1797-1828) ( 04 min., 48 sec. ) -- Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) ( 04 min., 13 sec. ) -- Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) ( 04 min., 58 sec. ) -- Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) ( 05 min., 51 sec. ) -- Franz Liszt (1811-1886) ( 02 min., 02 sec. ) -- Robert Schumann (1810-1856) ( 01 min., 35 sec. ) -- Clara Schumann (1819-1896) ( 01 min., 33 sec. ) -- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) ( 04 min., 32 sec. ) -- Max Bruch (1838-1920) ( 02 min., 39 sec. ) -- Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) ( 01 min., 37 sec. ) -- Richard Wagner (1813-1883) ( 03 min., 48 sec. ) -- Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) ( 04 min., 13 sec. ) -- Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) ( 01 min., 16 sec. ) -- The Waltz: The Strauss Family ( 04 min., 18 sec. ) -- Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) ( 04 min., 42 sec. ) -- Leo Delibes (1836-1891) ( 01 min., 04 sec. ) -- Georges Bizet (1838-1875) ( 02 min., 01 sec. ) -- Russia, the National Voice and the 'Mighty Handful' ( 02 min., 10 sec. ) -- Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) ( 01 min., 25 sec. ) -- Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) ( 04 min., 28 sec. ) -- Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) ( 03 min., 47 sec. ) -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) ( 05 min., 16 sec. ) -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (continued) ( 03 min., 33 sec. ) -- Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) ( 02 min., 58 sec. ) -- Norway: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) ( 02 min., 54 sec. ) -- England: Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) ( 03 min., 29 sec. ) -- France: Jules Massenet (1842-1912) ( 02 min., 45 sec. ) -- Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) ( 02 min., 17 sec. ) -- Claude Debussy (1862-1918) ( 02 min., 42 sec. ) -- Spain: Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) ( 02 min., 04 sec. ) -- Industrial progress ( 45 sec. ) -- England: Edward Elgar (1857-1934) ( 05 min., 25 sec. ) -- Italy: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) ( 04 min., 09 sec. ) -- Austria: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) ( 01 min., 53 sec. ) -- France: Paul Dukas (1865-1935) ( 01 min., 26 sec. ) -- Erik Satie (1866-1925) ( 01 min., 54 sec. ) -- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) ( 02 min., 26 sec. ) -- Richard Strauss (1864-1949) ( 02 min., 02 sec. ) -- Finland: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) ( 02 min., 05 sec. ) -- England: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) ( 03 min., 06 sec. ) -- Gustav Holst (1874-1934) ( 02 min., 05 sec. ) -- Russia: Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) ( 03 min., 33 sec. ) -- Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) ( 02 min., 05 sec. ) -- Russia: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) ( 03 min., 23 sec. ) -- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) ( 06 min., 04 sec. ) -- Hungary: Bela Bartok (1881-1945) ( 02 min., 30 sec. ) -- Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) ( 01 min., 10 sec. ) -- Austria: Anton Webern (1883-1945) ( 02 min., 25 sec. ) -- Carl Orff (1895-1982) ( 01 min., 36 sec. ) -- Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) ( 01 min., 06 sec. ) -- USA: George Gershwin (1898-1937) ( 05 min., 06 sec. ) -- Aaron Copland (1900-1990) ( 02 min., 54 sec. ) -- Samuel Barber (1910-1981) ( 01 min., 43 sec. ) -- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) ( 01 min., 56 sec. ) -- England: William Walton (1902-1983) ( 02 min., 39 sec. ) -- Russia: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) ( 04 min., 17 sec. ) -- England: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) ( 01 min., 56 sec. ) -- France: Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) ( 02 min., 59 sec. ) -- France and USA: Edgard Varese (1883-1965) ( 02 min., 19 sec. ) -- USA: John Cage (1912-1992) ( 01 min., 52 sec. ) -- England: John Tavener (b. 1944) ( 01 min., 54 sec. ) -- USA: Philip Glass (b. 1937) ( 01 min., 51 sec. ) -- Hans Zimmer (b. 1957) ( 01 min., 32 sec. ) -- Howard Shore (b. 1946) ( 01 min., 17 sec. ) -- John Williams (b. 1932) ( 01 min., 43 sec. ) -- Epilogue ( 01 min., 12 sec. )

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