The life and times of the great composers / Michael Steen.

Prelude
Handel (1685-1759)
Bach (1685-1750)
Haydn (1732-1809)
Mozart (1756-91)
Beethoven (1770-1827)
Schubert (1797-1828)
Rossini (1792-1868)
Meyerbeer, Bellini, and Donizetti
Berlioz (1803-69)
Mendelssohn (1809-47)
Chopin (1810-49)
Schumann (1810-56)
Liszt (1811-86)
Wagner (1813-83)
Offenbach and Johann Strauss
Verdi (1813-1901)
Brahms (1833-97)
Bizet (1838-75)
Late-19th-Century France : Franck, Saint-Saëns and Fauré
Russian Composers : Glinka and the Five
Tchaikovsky (1840-93)
Central-European nationalists : Smetana, Dvořak, Janácek and Bartók
Scandinavian nationalists : Grieg and Sibelius
Mahler (1860-1911)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Debussy (1862-1918)
Puccini (1858-1924)
The Russian Sequel
England : Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten
Postlude.