A humorous collection of true stories about some of the world's greatest composers. Includes Josquin, Palestrina, Gesualdo, byrd, Clarke, Purcell, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Brahms. Also Schubert, Schumann, Glinka, Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Williams, Britten, Ives, and Cage.
