Love Lives of the Great Composers
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (729 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0920151183 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
At the same time he began steeping himself in the lives of the great composers for his popular pre-concert talks in Manchester UK, discovering that his audiences were sometimes more fascinated by noggins and nookie than ninth-cords and natural harmonics. Talked out of becoming a professional musician when he left Cambridge University in 1963, Basil Howitt pursued a successful career in academia for 15 years. These led to his enthusiastically re
Basil Howitt delves into the love lives of a cluster of the great composers from Gesualdo to Wagner and finds much to delight, surprise, shock, and even appall his readers -- but never bore them!
Frank S. Chandler Jr. said A lot of fun!. This is a good read, though the author is at times grasping at straws to present love-life information about composers for whom there is little but speculation about their private affairs. Other composers left a wealth of titillating information about how they spent their time away from the writing table, and Mr. Howitt does a fine job with them. On the whole, a very readable book with loads of conversational fodder.
. Does for young girls what Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth did for their mothers. Written in an upbeat engaging style