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From the Author
Facts on the Greatest Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johannes Brahms
Georges Bizet
Anton Bruckner
Frédéric Chopin
Claude Debussy
Edward Elgar
Edvard Grieg
George Frideric Handel
Franz Joseph Haydn
Franz Liszt
Gustav Mahler
Felix Mendelssohn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Carl Nielsen
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Rachmaninov
Maurice Ravel
Erik Satie
Franz Schubert
Robert Schumann
Alexander Scriabin
Jean Sibelius
Igor Stravinsky
Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky
Giuseppe Verdi
Antonio Vivaldi
Richard Wagner
Composers about Composers
How Composers Find Inspiration
Famous Quotes
Little Known Stories
The Strangest Deaths
Musician Frienships
Rivalries
Stories Behind Classical Compositions
Insights from Musicians
Stage Fright
On-Stage Deaths
Unusual Uses for Mozart
Bibliography
My inspiration for this book comes from Alexander Witeschnik’s Musizieren geht übers Probieren, which contains funny stories from the lives of the musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic. I decided to do something similar, but with a broader scope; that is, to collect such material about the most famous composers and performers, while offering further insight. I wanted to compose fascinating and at the same time informative information all within one book. Thus, the reader can have not only information about where and when a certain musician was born, but also learn more about their personality and creativity.
This book is for a wide range of readers. It is not an academic text, so you will not find analyses or criticism of musical works. This book is a kind of a door, through which you will get to know famous musicians via their relationships with the surrounding world and their colleagues. Here you will learn how musicians spoke about one another, whom they loved and whom they disliked, with whom they were friends and with whom they competed. In addition, you will learn how their music is born and the beneficial impact it has on all of us.
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4. Handel’s successes in London continued, and he was eventually made the musical director at The Royal Academy of Music.
5. In 1711, the Queen’s Theatre in London was treated to its first ever opera composed specifically for it. The premiere performance of Handel’s Rinaldo took place there on February 24th in Haymarket.
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