Lives, Wives and Loves of the Great Composers

By: Fritz Spiegl

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Hardcover | 1 January 1997

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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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Foreword	p. 7
Johann Sebastian Bach	p. 13
Ludwig van Beethoven	p. 17
Albano Maria Johannes Berg	p. 25
Louis-Hector Berlioz	p. 35
Alexandre Cesar Leopold (Georges) Bizet	p. 42
Johannes Brahms	p. 45
Anton Bruckner	p. 51
Frederic (Fryderyk) Francois (Franciszek) Chopin	p. 56
Achille Claude Debussy	p. 66
Edward William Elgar	p. 74
Gabriel Urbain Faure	p. 81
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Count of Conza, etc	p. 85
Charles Francois Gounod	p. 92
George Percy Aldridge Grainger	p. 103
Franz Joseph Haydn	p. 113
Augusta Mary Anne Holmes	p. 118
Leo Eugen (Leos) Janacek	p. 120
Franz Kotzwara	p. 128
Jean-Marie Leclair	p. 131
Franz (Ferencz) Liszt	p. 133
Gustav Mahler	p. 142
Johannes Wolfgangus Amadeus Chrysostomus Sigismundus Mozart	p. 150
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini	p. 159
Charles Camille Saint-Saens	p. 168
Erik Alfred Leslie Satie	p. 170
Franz Peter Schubert	p. 172
Robert Alexander Schumann and Clara Josephine Schumann	p. 177
Bedrich/Friedrich Smetana	p. 190
Alessandro Stradella	p. 195
Richard Georg Strauss	p. 198
Arthur Seymour Sullivan	p. 203
Maria Agata Szymanowska	p. 209
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	p. 211
Wilhelm Richard Wagner	p. 221
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber	p. 234
Pets of the Great Composers	p. 241
Index	p. 251
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