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

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