Features 55 selections drawn from the rich 19th century Romantic literature. Composers included are Berlioz, Brahms, Bruckner, Chopin, Grieg, Mahler, Mendelssohn, J. Strauss, R. Strauss, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Wagner and others. Great Romantic melodies are excerpted from symphonies, ballets, operas, piano pieces and other concert works, and presented as faithful transcriptions in new, clean engravings. Includes capsule biographies of all of the composers represented.