Course Lecture Titles Let's Take It From the Top! The Concerto and the Orchestra The Pre-Classical Symphony Mannheim Classical Masters Franz Joseph Haydn, Part 1 Franz Joseph Haydn, Part 2 Mozart Beethoven Schubert Berlioz and the Symphonie fantastique Mendelssohn and Schumann Franck, Saint-Saens, and the Symphony in France Nationalism and the Symphony Brahms, Bruckner, and the Viennese Symphony Gustav Mahler Nielsen and Sibelius The Symphony in Russia Charles Ives Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber Roy Harris and William Schuman The Twentieth-Century British Symphony Olivier Messiaen and Turangalila! Dmitri Shostakovich and His Tenth Symphony
Author
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.
