Informationen zum Autor World-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis performs regularly with major orchestras! and in recital and chamber-music! throughout the world.In 1998 he was awarded a CBE for his services to music! and in 2000 went on to receive the Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau. He was Time Out magazine's Classical Musician of the Year in 2002. Klappentext The eagerly awaited follow-up to the bestselling "Why Beethoven Threw The Stew". It contains a fascinating collection of weird and wonderful stories on the lives of famous composers. Zusammenfassung What did Haydn's wife use for curling-paper for her hair? What did Schubert do with his old spectacles case? Why was Dvorak given a butcher's apron when he was a little boy? Why did Tchaikovsky spit on a map of Europe? Addressing these questions, this work contains facts, dates and anecdotes, interspersed with black-and-white line illustrations.

Vorwort
Why Handel Waggled His Wig, by Steven Isserlis, is the eagerly awaited follow-up to the best-selling Why Beethoven Threw the Stew.

Autorentext
World-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis performs regularly with major orchestras, and in recital and chamber-music, throughout the world.In 1998 he was awarded a CBE for his services to music, and in 2000 went on to receive the Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau. He was Time Out magazine's Classical Musician of the Year in 2002.

Klappentext

The eagerly awaited follow-up to the bestselling "Why Beethoven Threw The Stew". It contains a fascinating collection of weird and wonderful stories on the lives of famous composers.

Zusammenfassung
What did Haydn's wife use for curling-paper for her hair? What did Schubert do with his old spectacles case? Why was Dvorak given a butcher's apron when he was a little boy? Why did Tchaikovsky spit on a map of Europe? Addressing these questions, this work contains facts, dates and anecdotes, interspersed with black-and-white line illustrations.