Letters from Great Musicians to Young People: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Letters from Great Musicians to Young People, credited to Alethea Crawford Cox; Anna Alice Chapin, 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 Letters from Great Musicians to Young People by Alethea Crawford Cox; Anna Alice Chapin. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The object of this little book is to bring the reader nearer to the great masters in the realm of music, and make him or her acquainted with the man who worked, played, and suffered as do other men. Though confining themselves to a simple style, the authors have tried to enter into the life of each composer, and, wherever possible, by means of earnest study of letters and other data which have come down to us, to copy that composer's tricks of speech, manner of writing, and various idiosyncracies. - Summary by Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Letters from Great Musicians to Young People
• Author credits: Alethea Crawford Cox; Anna Alice Chapin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Combined MP3 track duration: 5:07:25

Catalogue topics

• Mozart
• Handel
• weber
• musicians -- biography
• musicians -- england
• musicians -- europe

Track guide

1. 01 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — 31:44
2. 02 - Domenico Scarlatti — 24:44
3. 03 - Johann Sebastian Bach — 18:10
4. 04 - George Frederick Händel Part 1 — 18:15
5. 05 - George Frederick Händel Part 2 — 19:53
6. 06 - Ritter Christoph Willibald von Gluck — 25:37
7. 07 - Josef Haydn — 15:34
8. 08 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — 30:27
9. 09 - Ludwig van Beethoven — 27:14
10. 10 - Carl Maria von Weber Part 1 — 24:53
11. 11 - Carl Maria von Weber Part 2 — 18:26
12. 12 - Carl Maria von Weber Part 3 — 23:03
13. 13 - Giacamo Meyerbeer — 29:25

Listen to this recording

Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.

Source and rights

This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.