Secret lives of great composers : what your teachers never told you about the world's musical masters

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! Read more... Abstract: 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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Discover little-known stories from music history—including murder, riots, and heartbreak—in this entertaining tour through the fascinating (and surprising) lives of classical music masters 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. Here, 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! "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!"--Provided by publisher Antonio Vivaldi George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach Franz Joseph Haydn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Child prodigies Ludwig van Beethoven Gioachino [sic] Rossini Hector Berlioz Felix Mendelssohn Women composers Frédéric Chopin Robert Schumann Franz Liszt Richard Wagner Giuseppe Verdi Johannes Brahms Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Antonín Leopold Dvořák Edward William Elgar Giacomo Puccini Opera libretti Gustav Mahler Claude Debussy Richard Strauss Sergey Rachmaninoff Arnold Schoenberg Charles Ives Maurice Ravel Igor Stravinsky George Gershwin Aaron Copland Jazz Dmitry Shostakovich Samuel Barber John Cage Leonard Bernstein Philip Glass Video game music. Many of the world's greatest composers have lived often bizarre lives which are rarely reflected by many of today's historical accounts. This book redresses the balance, explaining why - amongst other things - Rachmaninoff hated the sound of his own music and Chopin lived in fear of being buried alive