A Chronology Of Music And Musicians Volume 2 1700 1799 PDF Download

A Chronology of Music and Musicians Volume 2: 1700-1799 is the second of a projected eight volume set that sets out to provide a chronological history of musicians and music-making from the earliest times until the present day. The first volume, A Chronology of Music and Musicians Volume 1: From Prehistory to the 17th Century, was published in 2014. The books are arranged in a strict chronological rather than thematic sequence designed to give a picture of music history as it was unfolding. They include short biographies of all major composers and musicians as well as many others whose achievements are much less well known. They also include key events, publications and first performances. As well as charting the evolution of music as an art form through its practitioners, there is social and historical background, tales of tiffs and triumphs, prodigies and pariahs, masterpieces and murder. Assorted Bachs, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Telemann and Vivaldi are just a few of the musicians and composers featured. Each year is prefaced by a short summary of world events and other major artristic achievements in the fields of art, drama and literature. Events then unfold on a month-by-month basis before concluding with a list of significant publications that appeared that year. This second volume covers the whole of the eighteenth century. The next two will focus on the nineteenth, and the final four the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.