Contents

         Preface

Part One. The Musician as Murderer or Victim

  1    Lully and the Death of Cambert

  2    Salieri and the “Murder” of Mozart

  3    Finale Marked Presto: The Killing of Leclair

  4    Carlo Gesualdo: Murder and Madrigals

  5    Alessandro Stradella: Revenge for Love

  6    The Tragic Night of Anton Webern

  7    The Deadly Vacation of Marc Blitzstein

  8    The Stalking of John Lennon

Part Two. Crime in Music

  9    Lamech, the Second Biblical Killer: A Song with Variations

10    Gilbert and Sullivan on Corporation Law: Utopia, Limited and the Panama Canal Frauds

11    “Pore Jud is Daid”: Violence and Lawlessness in the Plays of Lynn Riggs

        Index