Robert Greenberg Audiobooks

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.

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 examines eight great concert masterworks by Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorák, Strauss, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Liszt. The works are divided into pairs for comparison.

This course offers a biographical and musical study of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) that places emphasis on his life in a social, political, and cultural context.

This course is a biographical and musical study of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) and explores his unique ability to create works of surpassing romantic expressiveness, melodic inventiveness, and harmonic sophistication.

This course is a biographical and musical study of Franz Haydn (1732-1809) and explores his efforts to create and develop the Classical symphony and quartet and, to a lesser extent, other Classical genres, such as the trio and piano sonata.

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

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.

This course is a biographical and musical study of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), whose brilliant music reflected messages from a buried life and was testimony to the triumph of the human spirit under totalitarianism.