# World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians

An audiobook by Harriette Brower, read by LibriVox volunteers (10 h 27 min, English).

These stories are gathered from many sources including biographies, letters, journals and musical history. The life story of 25 of the most celebrated musicians is presented. The author has aimed to make the story-sketches interesting to young people in hopes that they may prove valuable to musical readers of all ages. Students of piano, violin or other instruments need to know how the great composers lived their lives. In every musical career described in this book, from the old masters represented by Bach and Beethoven to the musical prophets of our own day, there is a wealth of inspiration and practical guidance for the artist in any field. Through their struggles, sorrows and triumphs, divine melody and harmony came into being, which will bless the world for all time to come. - Summary taken from the Foreword of the author

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## Chapters

0. Foreword (2:02): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_00_brower_64kb.mp3
1. Palestrina (13:32): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_01_brower_64kb.mp3
2. John Sebastian Bach (24:26): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_02_brower_64kb.mp3
3. George Frederick Handel (26:26): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_03_brower_64kb.mp3
4. Christoph Willibald Gluck (22:19): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_04_brower_64kb.mp3
5. Josef Haydn (29:51): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_05_brower_64kb.mp3
6. Wolfgang Mozart (48:15): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_06_brower_64kb.mp3
7. Ludwig van Beethoven (20:11): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_07_brower_64kb.mp3
8. Carl Maria von Weber (20:33): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_08_brower_64kb.mp3
9. Franz Schubert (20:23): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_09_brower_64kb.mp3
10. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (27:28): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_10_brower_64kb.mp3
11. Robert Schumann (33:09): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_11_brower_64kb.mp3
12. Frederic Chopin (35:40): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_12_brower_64kb.mp3
13. Hector Berlioz (28:10): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_13_brower_64kb.mp3
14. Franz Liszt (30:37): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_14_brower_64kb.mp3
15. Giuseppe Verdi (28:03): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_15_brower_64kb.mp3
16. Richard Wagner (32:25): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_16_brower_64kb.mp3
17. César Franck (18:35): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_17_brower_64kb.mp3
18. Johannes Brahms (37:02): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_18_brower_64kb.mp3
19. Edward Grieg (26:51): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_19_brower_64kb.mp3
20. Peter Ilyitch Tschaikowsky (22:16): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_20_brower_64kb.mp3
21. Edward MacDowell (18:00): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_21_brower_64kb.mp3
22. Claude Achille Debussy (17:06): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_22_brower_64kb.mp3
23. Arturo Toscanini (16:19): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_23_brower_64kb.mp3
24. Leopold Stokowsky (13:57): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_24_brower_64kb.mp3
25. Serge Koussevitzky (13:19): https://archive.org/download/worlds_great_men_of_music_2206_librivox/worldsgreatmenofmusic_25_brower_64kb.mp3