San Antonio College Library

An account of the composer's career, travels, loves, and personality traces his life from a precocious Polish childhood, through his early concert successes and his relationships with Gladkowska and Sand, to his broken final years.

Chronicles the life of John Christian, the youngest surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach, focusing on his musical training, preferences, and accomplishments as the organist of Milan Cathedral, composer to the King's Theater in London, and music master to the Queen.

Traces the personal life and musical career of George Frideric Handel, examines the development of his music, and analyzes his oratorios.

"Franz Liszt (1811-86) was one of the towering personalities of the nineteenth-century Romantic movement, internationally renowned for his astonishing versatility as a pianist, for his achievements as a composer and for his glittering social life. Not only did he raise the social status of the virtuoso but, by his dramatic love affairs with a series of aristocratic women, he came to symbolize the type of romantic hero depicted in his own music and...