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!
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Does for young girls what Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth did for their mothers. Written in an upbeat engaging style.
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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. At the age of 38, Howitt finally hit the road as a freelance cellist, working with many orchestras and ensembles.
Writing is Howitt's third career, which he began with a series of lighthearted pieces on the freelance lifestyle for Classical Music magazine. These led to his enthusiastically received first book Life in a Penguin Suit, published by the Manchester Camerata. 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.
Howitt has also written for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and Private Eye.
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We kick off with the most bizarre c.v. of any composer in this volume: a real-live prince who might have stepped straight out of the pages of The Arabian Nights, or into the pages of true-crime novelists Truman Capote or Ann Rule, if only they had been around in 1590. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Donna Maria, George Sand, Anna Magdalena, Maynard Solomon, Robbins Landon, Frau Weber, Immortal Beloved, Lola Montez, Maria Anna, Rebecca Schroeter, Alan Walker, Countess Marie, Don Fabrizio, Franz Liszt, Hans von Billow, Isabella Colbran, Duke Alfonso, King Ludwig, Leopold Mozart, Lower Rhine Festival, Maria von Genzinger, Martin Cooper, Prince Nicolaus, Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, Anna Giró New!
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We kick off with the most bizarre c.v. of any composer in this volume: a real-live prince who might have stepped straight out of the pages of The Arabian Nights, or into the pages of true-crime novelists Truman Capote or Ann Rule, if only they had been around in 1590. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Donna Maria, George Sand, Anna Magdalena, Maynard Solomon, Robbins Landon, Frau Weber, Immortal Beloved, Lola Montez, Maria Anna, Rebecca Schroeter, Alan Walker, Countess Marie, Don Fabrizio, Franz Liszt, Hans von Billow, Isabella Colbran, Duke Alfonso, King Ludwig, Leopold Mozart, Lower Rhine Festival, Maria von Genzinger, Martin Cooper, Prince Nicolaus, Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, Anna Giró New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Magic Flute (The Black Dog Opera Library) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on page 74, page 79, and page 81
- Stabat Mater by Luciano Tomelleri on page 113, page 117, and page 141
- Franz Liszt by Alan Walker on page 198, page 208, and Back Matter
- Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann on page 155, page 166, and page 189
- Tristan and Isolde: English National Opera Guide 6 (English National Opera Guides) by Richard Wagner on page 248, page 251, and page 257
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- More Love Lives of the Great Composers by Basil Howitt on 4 pages
- Quotable Opera: Aria Ready for a Laugh (Quotable Books) by Stephen Tanner on page 64, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Opera Antics and Anecdotes by Stephen B. Tanner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Quotable Twain (Quotable Books) by David W. Barber in Back Matter
- Grabbing Operas by Their Tales: Liberating the Libretti by Charles E. Lake in Back Matter
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