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

Dr. Robert Greenberg is known for teaching Over 20 Classical Music Appreciation Courses for The Great Courses.

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

Underappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights in the estimation of generations of music lovers.

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.

The piano is the most popular solo concert instrument in Western music. One of the key reasons is the fact that it has inspired many of the greatest masterpieces in the concert repertoire.

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

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.

In the worlds of painting and literature, it's easy to see where history and art intersect.