The Lighter Classics in Music
A Comprehensive Guide to
Musical Masterworks in a Lighter Vein
by 187 Composers
by David Ewen
Arco Publishing Company, Inc.
NEW YORK
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-17781
Copyright 1961 by Arco Publishing Company, Inc., New York
All rights reserved.
Manufactured in the United States of America,
by H. Wolff, New York
Contents
[Joseph Achron] 1 [Adolphe-Charles Adam] 2 [Richard Addinsell] 4 [Isaac Albéniz] 5 [Hugo Alfvén] 7 [Louis Alter] 8 [Leroy Anderson] 10 [Daniel François Esprit Auber] 12 [Johann Sebastian Bach] 15 [Michael Balfe] 18 [Hubert Bath] 19 [Ludwig van Beethoven] 20 [Vincenzo Bellini] 23 [Ralph Benatzky] 24 [Arthur Benjamin] 26 [Robert Russell Bennett] 27 [Hector Berlioz] 29 [Leonard Bernstein] 31 [Georges Bizet] 33 [Luigi Boccherini] 37 [François Boieldieu] 39 [Giovanni Bolzoni] 40 [Carrie Jacobs Bond] 41 [Alexander Borodin] 42 [Felix Borowski] 44 [Johannes Brahms] 45 [Charles Wakefield Cadman] 48 [Lucien Caillet] 49 [Alfredo Catalani] 50 [Otto Cesana] 51 [Emmanuel Chabrier] 52 [George Whitefield Chadwick] 54 [Cécile Chaminade] 55 [Gustave Charpentier] 56 [Frédéric Chopin] 57 [Eric Coates] 61 [Peter Cornelius] 63 [Noel Coward] 64 [César Cui] 65 [Claude Debussy] 66 [Léo Delibes] 68 [Gregore Dinicu] 71 [Gaetano Donizetti] 72 [Franz Drdla] 75 [Riccardo Drigo] 76 [Arcady Dubensky] 76 [Paul Dukas] 77 [Antonin Dvořák] 79 [Sir Edward Elgar] 83 [Duke Ellington] 86 [Georges Enesco] 87 [Leo Fall] 89 [Manuel de Falla] 90 [Gabriel Fauré] 91 [Friedrich Flotow] 92 [Stephen Foster] 94 [Rudolf Friml] 95 [Julius Fučík] 98 [Sir Edward German] 98 [George Gershwin] 100 [Henry F. Gilbert] 109 [Don Gillis] 111 [Alberto Ginastera] 112 [Alexander Glazunov] 113 [Reinhold Glière] 116 [Michael Glinka] 117 [Christoph Willibald Gluck] 119 [Benjamin Godard] 120 [Leopold Godowsky] 121 [Edwin Franko Goldman] 122 [Karl Goldmark] 123 [Rubin Goldmark] 125 [François Gossec] 126 [Louis Gottschalk] 127 [Morton Gould] 128 [Charles Gounod] 131 [Percy Grainger] 134 [Enrique Granados] 136 [Edvard Grieg] 137 [Ferde Grofé] 141 [David Guion] 143 [Johan Halvorsen] 144 [George Frederick Handel] 145 [Joseph Haydn] 147 [Victor Herbert] 149 [Ferdinand Hérold] 154 [Jenö Hubay] 155 [Engelbert Humperdinck] 157 [Jacques Ibert] 158 [Michael Ippolitov-Ivanov] 159 [Ivanovici] 160 [Armas Järnefelt] 160 [Dmitri Kabalevsky] 161 [Emmerich Kálmán] 162 [Kéler-Béla] 165 [Jerome Kern] 166 [Albert Ketelby] 169 [Aram Khatchaturian] 170 [George Kleinsinger] 171 [Fritz Kreisler] 172 [Édouard Lalo] 175 [Josef Lanner] 176 [Charles Lecocq] 177 [Ernesto Lecuona] 179 [Franz Léhar] 180 [Ruggiero Leoncavallo] 183 [Anatol Liadov] 185 [Paul Lincke] 186 [Franz Liszt] 187 [Frederick Loewe] 189 [Albert Lortzing] 191 [Alexandre Luigini] 192 [Hans Christian Lumbye] 193 [Edward MacDowell] 194 [Albert Hay Malotte] 196 [Gabriel Marie] 196 [Martini il Tedesco] 197 [Pietro Mascagni] 198 [Jules Massenet] 199 [Robert McBride] 203 [Harl McDonald] 204 [Felix Mendelssohn] 205 [Giacomo Meyerbeer] 208 [Karl Milloecker] 211 [Moritz Moszkowski] 212 [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] 213 [Modest Mussorgsky] 215 [Ethelbert Nevin] 218 [Otto Nicolai] 220 [Siegfried Ochs] 221 [Jacques Offenbach] 222 [Ignace Jan Paderewski] 225 [Gabriel Pierné] 226 [Jean-Robert Planquette] 227 [Eduard Poldini] 228 [Manuel Ponce] 229 [Amilcare Ponchielli] 230 [Cole Porter] 231 [Serge Prokofiev] 233 [Giacomo Puccini] 235 [Sergei Rachmaninoff] 238 [Joachim Raff] 240 [Maurice Ravel] 241 [Emil von Rezniček] 243 [Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov] 244 [Richard Rodgers] 247 [Sigmund Romberg] 253 [David Rose] 256 [Gioacchino Rossini] 257 [Anton Rubinstein] 261 [Camille Saint-Saëns] 262 [Pablo de Sarasate] 267 [Franz Schubert] 268 [Robert Schumann] 272 [Cyril Scott] 274 [Jean Sibelius] 274 [Christian Sinding] 277 [Leone Sinigaglia] 278 [Bedřich Smetana] 280 [John Philip Sousa] 283 [Oley Speaks] 285 [Robert Stolz] 286 [Oscar Straus] 287 [Eduard Strauss] 288 [Johann Strauss I] 289 [Johann Strauss II] 291 [Josef Strauss] 298 [Sir Arthur Sullivan] 299 [Franz von Suppé] 311 [Johan Svendsen] 313 [Deems Taylor] 314 [Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky] 316 [Ambroise Thomas] 322 [Enrico Toselli] 324 [Sir Paolo Tosti] 325 [Giuseppe Verdi] 326 [Richard Wagner] 332 [Emil Waldteufel] 338 [Karl Maria von Weber] 339 [Kurt Weill] 341 [Jaromir Weinberger] 343 [Henri Wieniawski] 345 [Ralph Vaughan Williams] 346 [Jacques Wolfe] 347 [Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari] 348 [Sebastian Yradier] 350 [Carl Zeller] 350 [Karl Michael Ziehrer] 352