The essential canon of classical music

"Provides facts about composers important to the history of classical music, including profiles of Guillaume Dufay, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Joseph Haydn, Georges Bizet, and Dmitri Shostakovich."@en
"Identifies almost two hundred forty composers whose works are most important to an understanding of classical music, with essays on sixty of the most significant. Presented in chronological order for the Medieval, Renaissance, and Elizabethan ages, the age of the Baroque, the age of Classicism, the Romantic age, and the age of Modernism."
"Identifies almost two hundred forty composers whose works are most important to an understanding of classical music, with essays on sixty of the most significant. Presented in chronological order for the Medieval, Renaissance, and Elizabethan ages, the age of the Baroque, the age of Classicism, the Romantic age, and the age of Modernism."@en