Secret Lives of Great Composers

What Your Teachers Never Told You about the World's Musical Masters

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Theory & Criticism, History & Criticism, Reference, Biography & Memoir, Composers & Musicians
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Author: Elizabeth Lunday ISBN: 9781594747465
Publisher: Quirk Books Publication: April 8, 2014
Imprint: Quirk Books Language: English
Author: Elizabeth Lunday
ISBN: 9781594747465
Publisher: Quirk Books
Publication: April 8, 2014
Imprint: Quirk Books
Language: English

True tales of murder, riots, heartbreak, and great music.

With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Gioachino Rossini (draft-dodging womanizer) to Johann Sebastian Bach (jailbird) to Richard Wagner (alleged cross-dresser), Secret Lives of Great Composers recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international music. You’ll learn that Edward Elgar dabbled with explosives; that John Cage was obsessed with fungus; that Berlioz plotted murder; and that Giacomo Puccini stole his church’s organ pipes and sold them as scrap metal so he could buy cigarettes. This is one music history lesson you’ll never forget!

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True tales of murder, riots, heartbreak, and great music.

With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Gioachino Rossini (draft-dodging womanizer) to Johann Sebastian Bach (jailbird) to Richard Wagner (alleged cross-dresser), Secret Lives of Great Composers recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international music. You’ll learn that Edward Elgar dabbled with explosives; that John Cage was obsessed with fungus; that Berlioz plotted murder; and that Giacomo Puccini stole his church’s organ pipes and sold them as scrap metal so he could buy cigarettes. This is one music history lesson you’ll never forget!

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