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Secret Lives of Great Composers

Secret Lives of Great Composers

Paperback

Series: Secret Lives, Book 8

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Publisher Price: $25.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 6, 2026

ISBN10: 1594744025
ISBN13: 9781594744020
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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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