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

English · Paperback

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Zusatztext “Far from dead! [the composers] jump off the pages of Lunday's book with all the life of a good story.”— WOSU Public Radio Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Lunday is a journalist specializing in music, architecture, and culture. She writes the “Masterpieces” column for mental_floss magazine and lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Klappentext 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! Zusammenfassung 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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Authors Elizabeth Lunday, Mario Zucca
Assisted by Mario Zucca (Illustration)
Publisher Quirk Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 01.08.2009
 
EAN 9781594744020
ISBN 978-1-59474-402-0
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 133 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
Series QUIRK BOOKS
Secret Lives
Secret Lives
Subject Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies

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