Symphony of Seduction: The Great Love Stories of Classical Composers

✍ Scribed by Lawrence, Christopher

• Book ID: 109883549
• Publisher: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 882 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781863958400

✦ Synopsis

The orchestra has tuned, the lights in the hall have dimmed, and the conductor's baton signals the downbeat for the beginning of the romance. Settle back - it's telling you something...
The history of classical music is littered with murder, adultery, bigamy, fraud, sado-masochism, riches, poverty, gluttony, nervous breakdowns, bizarre behaviour and terrible, terrible toilet humour (Mozart was the prime exponent of the latter). Classical music - nice? Not at all. It's the most immediate expression of mental and emotional extremes: often deceptive, sometimes dangerous and frequently a discomforting revelation.
Swooning documents the all too human flaws in the lives of the great composers by loosely following the sequence of emotions as experienced in a love affair - one that doesn't work out, of course.
In this fully revised and updated edition, Christopher Lawrence leads us through the listening experience, from anger and...