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.

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 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 Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), noted composer and the greatest opera conductor of his time.

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

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.

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.

The great Bohemian-born composer Gustav Mahler once said, "A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything."

These 32 lectures on the history and analysis of Beethoven’s nine symphonies examine how he revolutionized musical composition and created works of unique beauty, power, and depth.

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.