Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v HOW TO USE THE WEBSITE vi INTRODUCTION "To Know One Thing Well" 1 1 Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) 5 "Spring" (Movement 1) from The Four Seasons 2 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 26 Invention No.1 from the Two-part Inventions 3 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) 39 "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah 4 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) 59 String Quartet, Op.76, No. 1, Movement 3 5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 73 "Dove Sono" from The Marriage of Figaro 6 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 89 Waldstein Sonata, Movement 1 7 Franz Schubert (1797-1828) 117 "Erlkonig" 8 Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) 140 A-Minor Mazurka, Op.17, No.4 9 Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 156 "Traumerei" from Kinderszenen 10 Franz Liszt (1811-1886) 166 Transcendental Etude in A Minor 11 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) 182 Scherzo from the String Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 12 Richard Wagner (1813-1883) 206 Prelude to Tristan and Isolde 13 Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) 223 "De' Miei Bollenti Spiriti" from La Traviata 14 Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) 237 "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly 15 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 249 A-Major Intermezzo, Op.118, No.2 16 Antonin Dvor ak (1841-1904) 264 Slavonic Dance , Op.46, No.8 17 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) 283 "Trepak" from The Nutcracker Suite 18 Claude Debussy (1862-1918) 296 "Des Pas sur la Neige" from Preludes , Book I GLOSSARY 307 INDEX 309

About the Author

Rob Kapilow is a composer, conductor, pianist, author, and music commentator. His What Makes It Great? programs, which began on NPR, have been developed into full-length concert evenings that are a mainstay of Lincoln Center's Great Performers series and are also presented on a recurring basis in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Kansas City, in California at Cerritos, and in Canada at the Toronto Symphony. They have also been turned into CD recordings and video podcasts. He appears regularly throughout the United States and Canada, both with What Makes It Great? and FamilyMusik , and has been featured in print and on television, including on NBC's Today show and Live from Lincoln Center on PBS. In 2008, his first book, All You Have to Do Is Listen , was selected as the Best Book in Music & the Performing Arts by the Association of American Publishers. In 2009, he was the subject of Summer Sun Winter Moon , a PBS documentary about his Lewis and Clark symphony in collaboration with a Blackfoot poet.