Robert M. Greenberg is an American composer, pianist and musicologist. He has composed more than 50 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for The Teaching Company. Greenberg earned a B.A. in music, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the faculties of UC Berkeley, Californiz State University, East Bay, and the San Franciso Conservatory of Music, where he was chairman of the Department of Music History and Literature as well as Director of the Adult Extension Division. Dr. Greenberg is currently Music Historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances.
Series
Books
The Music of Richard Wagner
2010
Escuadrón Suicida vol. 05
Apokolips Now
2019
How to Listen to and Understand Opera Transcript Books (Great Courses) (Teaching Company)
2025
The Life And Operas Of Verdi
1999
A Brief History of Holiday Music
2015
The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works
2011
Great Masters
Liszt His Life & Music
2002
Great Masters
Mahler His Life & Music
2001
How to Listen to and Understand Opera
1997
Bach and the High Baroque
2025
Concert Masterworks
2023
The Symphony
2004
Great Music of the 20th Century
2018
Great Masters
Stravinsky His Life and Music
2000
The String Quartets of Beethoven
2009
Great Masters
Mozart: His Life and Music
2000
Great Masters
Haydn - His Life and Music
2000
Great Masters
Tchaikovsky - His Life and Music
2000
Music as a Mirror of History
2016
The Operas of Mozart
2002
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas
2005
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
1905
Great Masters
Shostakovich His Life & Music
2002
The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works
2013
Great Masters
Beethoven - His Life and Music
2001
The Chamber Music of Mozart
2004
How to Listen to Great Music
A Guide to Its History, Culture, and Heart
2011
Great Masters
Robert & Clara Schumann Their Lives and Music
2002
Understanding the Fundamentals of Music
2007
The Symphonies of Beethoven
1996
We can save the world
The Uniworld Plan
1997
The Concerto
2006
The Life & Times of Beethoven
The First Angry Man
2019
Great Masters
Brahms His Life & Music
2000
