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Lives and times of the great composers

A grand and panoramic biographical history of the giants of classical music. Interliked yet self-contained, each chapter distills the life of one or more composers, set against the social, political, musical, and cultural background of the time.

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  • "Lives & times of the great composers"@en
  • "Great composers"
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  • "A grand and panoramic biographical history of the giants of classical music. Interliked yet self-contained, each chapter distills the life of one or more composers, set against the social, political, musical, and cultural background of the time."@en
  • "Studies the social, cultural, and political spheres that affected the lives and works of approximately 50 composers."
  • "Explore the life of Bach, the respectable burgher much of whose vast output was composed amidst petty turf disputes in Lutheran Leipzig; the ugly, argumentative Beethoven in French-occupied Vienna, obsessed by his laundry; Mozart, the over-exploited infant prodigy whose untimely death was shrouded in rumour. Steen gives us the story of Verdi, who composed against the background of the Italian Risorgimento; the family life of the Wagners; and Brahms, who rose from the slums of Hamburg to become a devotee of beer and coffee in fin-de-siècle Vienna, a cultural capital bent on destroying Mahler .."

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  • "Lives and times of the great composers"@en
  • "The Lives & Times of The Great Composers"@en
  • "Wielcy kompozytorzy i ich czasy"
  • "Wielcy kompozytorzy i ich czasy"@pl
  • "The Lives and Times of the Great Composers"
  • "The lives and times of the great composers"@en
  • "The lives and times of the great composers"

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