Lives, Wives & Loves Of Great Composers - Hardcover

Spiegl, Fritz

9780714529172: Lives, Wives & Loves Of Great Composers

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ISBN 10: 0714529176 ISBN 13: 9780714529172

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000

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 Augusta Holmes and Maria Szymanowska, who are only just becoming appreciated for their contributions to music. Fritz Spiegl's treatment and disclosures, however, are not just idle gossip. His concise use of biographical details gives a clear picture of each composer's musical career, revealing how his emotional life came to influence his music and, in some cases, vice versa. This volume alo features a special section which contains Spiegl's extensive researches into some of the pets of the great composers.

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Lives, Wives And Loves Of The Great Composers is a treasury of fascinating biographical portraits featuring some of the world's most outstanding composers' "romantic" and marital relationships. Quite often great musical artistry and grand passions have met with hilarious consequences. At other times the results were far more poignant, and occasionally tragic. Lives, Wives And Loves Of The Great Composers reveals quite convincingly that there is more to music than meets the ear. This is a veritable smorgasbord of follies and fantasies, tragedies and teases, symphonies and seductions. Arranged in alphabetical order, spanning the ages from High Renaissance to 20th Century modernism, author Fritz Spiegl's explorations of the desires and strategies of some of the most famous names in music history will be an irresistible addition to anyone personal, academic, or community library of music books. Lives, Wives And Loves Of The Great Composers is great "armchair" reading which will heighten one's listening pleasure to select compositions by favorite composers. Lives, Wives And Loves Of The Great Composers is recommended reading for students of music history and women's history. -- Midwest Book Review

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PublisherMarion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Publication date2000
ISBN 10 0714529176
ISBN 13 9780714529172
BindingHardcover
Edition number1
Number of pages256

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