Cover title: The Great composers II : their lives and times.

1. Jacques Offenbach, 1819-1880, Johann Strauss II, 1825-1899, Claude Debussy, 1862-1918, Maurice Ravel, 1875-1937 -- 2. Bedrich Smetana, 1824-1884, Antonin Dvorak, 1841-1907, Edvard Grieg, 1843-1907, Jean Sibelius, 1865-1957 -- 3. Modest Mussorgsky, 1839-1881, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, 1844-1908, Sergei Rachmaninov, 1873-1943, Sergei Prokofiev, 1891-1953, Dmitri Shostakovich, 1906-1975 -- 4. Edward Elgar, 1857-1934, Richard Strauss, 1864-1949, Gustav Holst, 1874-1934, Joaquin Rodrigo, b. 1901 -- 5. Bela Bartok, 1881-1945, Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971, Carl Orff, 1895-1982, George Gershwin, 1898-1937.