Beethoven"s Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Classical Music and Beyond Author：Tim Rayborn Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (1 Dec. 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 1510712712 ISBN-13: 978-1510712713 Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 3 x 22.9 cm 书籍简介 Beethoven’s Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving that good music and shocking tabloid-style stories make excellent be ... 展开完整描述 ▼
Beethoven"s Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Classical Music and Beyond
Author：Tim Rayborn
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (1 Dec. 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1510712712
ISBN-13: 978-1510712713
Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 3 x 22.9 cm
书籍简介
Beethoven’s Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving that good music and shocking tabloid-style stories make excellent bedfellows, it presents tales of revenge, murder, curious accidents, and strange fates that span more than two thousand years. Highlights include:
A cursed song that kills those who hear it
A composer who lovingly cradles the head of Beethoven’s corpse when his remains are exhumed half a century after his death
A fifteenth-century German poet who sings of the real-life Dracula
A dream of the devil that inspires a virtuoso violin piece
Unlike many music books that begin their histories with the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries, Beethoven’s Skull takes the reader back to the world of ancient Greece and Rome, progressing through the Middle Ages and all the way into the twentieth century. It also looks at myths and legends, superstitions, and musical mysteries, detailing the ways that musicians and their peers have been rather horrible to one another over the centuries.
作者简介
Tim Rayborn writes on a variety of historical and musical topics, from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century; he has a PhD from the University of Leeds in England. He is also a professional musician, with a specialty in medieval repertoire. He lives in Berkeley, California.
