Five Great French Composers Berlioz Cesar Franck Saint Saens Debussy Ravel

Download or read book Five Great French Composers: Berlioz, César Franck, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel written by Donald Brook and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of five attractive biographies, the reader meets the greatest characters in French music: Berlioz, Cesar Franck, Saint-Saens, Debussy and Ravel, and is given many glimpses of the fascinating musical and student life of Paris during the past hundred years. To the concert-goer and music student it will also be extremely useful as a book of reference because the author has included concise and lucid annotations on the composers' principal works without using technical expressions that might confuse the amateur.