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My Favorite Intermissions: Lives of the Musical Greats and Other Facts you Never Knew You Were Missing
My Favorite Intermissions Lives of the Musical Greats and Other Facts you Never Knew You Were Missing Author:Victor Borge, Robert Sherman, Thomas Winding (Illustrator) You'll laugh when Borge sits down at the piano - now that he has sat down at the typewriter, you'll roar. — Had Beethoven, Wagner, Berlioz, Mozart and the other great composers in this book known that Victor Borge was watching, perhaps they would have been more careful. As it is, these unrestrained geniuses lived as grandly and pass... more »ionately as they wrote and left a trail of broken hearts, instruments and impresarios in their wakes. The author has picked up all the pieces and put them back together in these unexpurgated, sometimes shocking but totally factual accounts of composers at work, at play and at mischief.
The facts -- every outlandish, incredible, unbelievable one of them -- are as real as the hilarity. Beethoven in jai? Yes, he was. Strauss picketed by his second wife? You bet. Mozart was writing operas in between billiard shots? Absolutely. When you finish this book, you'll know more about music and musicians than anybody could possible care to. So why not start your education and your laughter here.« less