Robert Greenberg Music Courses on Audio & Video

After taking this course, you will hear and understand an entire language of unmatched beauty, genius, and power.

Dr. Robert Greenberg is known for teaching Over 20 Classical Music Appreciation Courses for The Great Courses.

Underappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights in the estimation of generations of music lovers.

The piano is the most popular solo concert instrument in Western music. One of the key reasons is the fact that it has inspired many of the greatest masterpieces in the concert repertoire.

What made Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart perhaps the most complete "musical package" in history - a man who created more masterpieces of virtually every musical genre of his day than any other composer before or since?

This course is a biographical and musical study of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), who composed more than 600 works of beauty and brilliance in just over 20 years.

The history of opera is traced from its beginning in the early 17th century to around 1924.

Beethoven was a revolutionary man living in a revolutionary time. He captured his inner voice—demons and all—and the spirit of his time, and in doing so, created a body of music the likes of which no one had ever before imagined.

In the worlds of painting and literature, it's easy to see where history and art intersect.

This course offers a biographical and musical study of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), noted composer and the greatest opera conductor of his time.