Secret Lives of Great Composers: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters

Name: Secret Lives of Great Composers: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters
Brand: Quirk Books
SKU: 9781594744020-V
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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!

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 288
Release Date:: 2009-09-02
Publication Date:: 2009-09-02
Publisher:: Quirk Books
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 1594744025
Weight:: 386 g
Height:: 20.3 cm
Width:: 13.3 cm
Thickness:: 1.9 cm

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