An Introduction to the Life and Works of the Great Composers

1 The troubled boy (Tschaikowsky)
2 Conducting debut and tour in the US (Tschaikowsky)
3 Upbringing in Hamburg (Brahms)
4 Later relationship with Clara (Brahms)
5 Meeting the Countess Marie d'Agoult (Liszt)
6 Transforming Weimar (Liszt)
7 First surviving work (Bach)
8 Incredible productivity but difficult personal relations (Bach)
9 Early recognition (Chopin)
10 Declining physical health (Chopin)
11 A child prodigy (Mozart)
12 Expensive tastes, and resourcefulness (Mozart)
13 Humble beginnings (Verdi)
14 Everlasting compulsiton to work (Verdi)
15 Introduction (Beethoven)
16 Attitude to publication and reception of Symphony Nr. 9 (Beethoven)