Lives, Wives & Loves of Great Composers

by Fritz Spiegl

Book Overview

In an intentionally light-hearted style, Fritz Spiegl has researched the lives and loves of the great composers through the ages. In an alphabetically arranged panorama of biographical portraits, he humorously uncovers hitherto unknown aspects of the composers' personalities that are, at best, discreetly ignored by serious musical analysts or, at worst, have never made the history books at all. He also includes some of the female composers, such as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714529176
• ISBN13: 9780714529172
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"