Conductor's Guide to Nineteenth-Century Choral-Orchestral Works

Jonathan D. Green is a composer, a conductor, and Dean of the College at Sweet Briar College. He is the author of A Conductor's Guide to the Choral-Orchestral Works of J.S. Bach (Scarecrow Press, 2000); A Conductor's Guide to Choral Orchestral Works, Twentieth-Century, volume 1 (Scarecrow Press, 1994) and volume 2 (Scarecrow Press, 1998), and A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works, Classical Period (Scarecrow Press, 2001).

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 The WorksChapter 3 Beach, Mrs. H. H. A.Chapter 4 Beethoven, Ludwig vanChapter 5 Berlioz, HectorChapter 6 Brahms, JohannesChapter 7 Bruch, MaxChapter 8 Bruckner, AntonChapter 9 Cherubini, LuigiChapter 10 Coleridge-Taylor, SamuelChapter 11 Delibes, LéoChapter 12 Dvorák, AntoninChapter 13 Elgar, EdwardChapter 14 Fauré, GabrielChapter 15 Gounod, Charles FrançoisChapter 16 Liszt, FranzChapter 17 Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, FelixChapter 18 Messager, AndréChapter 19 Paine, John KnowlesChapter 20 Parker, HoratioChapter 21 Puccini, GiacomoChapter 22 Rimsky-Korsakov, NikolaiChapter 23 Rossini, GioachinoChapter 24 Saint-Saëns, CamilleChapter 25 Schubert, FranzChapter 26 Schumann, RobertChapter 27 Scriabin, AlexanderChapter 28 Strauss, RichardChapter 29 Tchaikovsky, Piotr IlyichChapter 30 Verdi, GiuseppePart 31 Appendix: Text SourcesPart 32 About the Author

Green presents useful data on 28 nineteenth-century composers.... This reference source will assist conductors of professional, university, or community choruses.... It can also serve as a basic guide for those researching specific compositions.