The Love Affairs of Great Musicians (Volume 1&2)

This is one of the very first books on the subject that features, among other interesting love stories, a revelation of the exact identity of Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved"; the letters of Liszt to his princess; letters of Chopin long supposed to have been burned, as well as diaries and letters gathered by an intimate friend for a biography whose completion was prevented by death; the publication of a vast amount of Wagneriana; the appearance of a full life of Tschaikovski by his brother, with complete elucidation of much that had been suppressed; a detailed account of the whole progress of Clara Schumann's beautiful love story, down to the day of the marriage; and numberless fugitive paragraphs throwing new light on affairs more or less unknown or misunderstood.Volume 1:The OvertureThe AncientsThe Men of FlandersOrland Di Lassus and His ReginaHenry and Frances PurcellThe Strange Adventures of StradellaGiovanni and Lucrezia PalestrinaBach, the PatriarchPapa and Mamma...