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

by Elizabeth Lunday

Book Overview

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;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594744025
• ISBN13: 9781594744020
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Quirk Books
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"