Days with the Great Composers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Days with the Great Composers, credited to May Gillington Byron, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Days with the Great Composers, by May Gillington Byron. Read by David Wales. These light entertainments, originally published anonymously, are an imagined day in the life of each composer (Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Chopin, Wagner, Gounod, Mozart, Schumann, Tschaikovsky). This gives the author scope to describe each one's work and life, sketchily, of course, but interestingly. (Summary by David Wales)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Days with the Great Composers
• Author credits: May Gillington Byron
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Combined MP3 track duration: 7:33:11

Catalogue topics

• music
• biography
• Chaikovsky
• Tchaikovsky
• non-fiction

Track guide

1. 01 A Day With Beethoven — 51:14
2. 02 A Day With Mendelssohn — 41:23
3. 03 A Day With Schubert — 45:08
4. 04 A Day With Chopin — 52:50
5. 05 A Day With Wagner — 54:32
6. 06 A Day With Gounod — 54:59
7. 07 A Day With Mozart — 48:40
8. 08 A Day With Schumann — 51:29
9. 09 A Day With Tschaikovsky — 52:56

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