The Romantic Composers

The Romantic Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason is one of the most influential books of our time. The author's radical approach to music history has been debated and discussed for over a century. This new translation makes this book more accessible than ever. Readers will find themselves agreeing or disagreeing with the author, but will never be bored. This work is an intensive study of the lives and works of the first rank composers of the Romantic era, including Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Liszt and more. The book focuses on their biographies as well as their compositions in a chronological progression from 1800 to 1900.