Introduction: The greatness complex
Creator of modern music : Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Music for use, devotion, and personal profit : Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
"Vast effects with simple means" : George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
The "Vienna Four" : an introduction
"I had to be original" : Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
"Right here in my noodle" : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
The gift of inevitability : Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
"When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow" : Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
An unforgettable day in 1836 : Fryderyk Franciszek (Frédéric François) Chopin (1810-1849), Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
The Italian reformer and the German futurist : Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
The synthesizer : Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
The refined radical : Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
"The public will judge" : Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
New languages for a new century : Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Bela Bartók (1881-1945)
