Nanying Jia

Not a Serious Book

Revisado: 06-12-21

If you are interested in learning the great arts of these composers and the impact of their music work, this is not the book for you. The narrator did a decent job but alas the book was poorly conceived. The focus of the book is clearly on the private lives of the composers the author covered (one chapter for each composer), especially their love lives. At the end of each chapter, I have no idea why that particular composer was considered "great", because the most common theme seemed to be how many women the composer was involved with over his lifetime. The accuracy of the historical events is also questionable. For example, did Beethoven really meet Mozart? Other books I read always treated this with some caution as many believed that the historic record was pretty sketchy on this one. But the author of this book described it with total certainty. According to the book author, not only did Beethoven meet Mozart, he actually took a few music lessons from him!

I thought at first that I could at least learn something about other aspects of the composers' lives, if not their artistic work. But I finally stopped at Wagner, and saw no reason to finish listening.

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