Story-Lives of Great Musicians: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Story-Lives of Great Musicians, credited to Francis Jameson Rowbotham, 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 Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Francis Jameson Rowbotham. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of the facts and incidents in the lives of some great musicians. It is hoped that young readers — and especially those to whom music is a subject of study — will take a greater interest in some of the masterpieces of composition when they have learnt something about the composers themselves, and the circumstances under which they wrote. - Summary from the Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Story-Lives of Great Musicians
• Author credits: Francis Jameson Rowbotham
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 11:02:04

Catalogue topics

• biography
• Goethe
• Bach
• Beethoven
• Haydn
• Schubert
• Handel
• opera

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01 - Bach Part 1 — 14:57
2. 02 - Bach Part 2 — 24:05
3. 03 - Bach Part 3 — 14:44
4. 04 - Handel Part 1 — 13:58
5. 05 - Handel Part 2 — 18:56
6. 06 - Handel Part 3 — 17:02
7. 07 - Handel Part 4 — 17:31
8. 08 - Handel Part 5 — 21:01
9. 09 - Haydn Part 1 — 22:52
10. 10 - Haydn Part 2 — 16:47
11. 11 - Haydn Part 3 — 20:11
12. 12 - Haydn Part 4 — 25:49
13. 13 - Haydn Part 5 — 22:06
14. 14 - Mozart Part 1 — 23:11
15. 15 - Mozart Part 2 — 22:21
16. 16 - Mozart Part 3 — 20:58
17. 17 - Mozart Part 4 — 26:27
18. 18 - Mozart Part 5 — 22:25
19. 19 - Beethoven Part 1 — 24:26
20. 20 - Beethoven Part 2 — 17:53
21. 21 - Beethoven Part 3 — 25:31
22. 22 - Beethoven Part 4 — 18:49
23. 23 - Beethoven Part 5 — 20:40
24. 24 - Schubert Part 1 — 16:06

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