Grand Passions and Broken Hearts : Loves and Lusts of the Great Composers

Basil Howitt / Published 1998

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This book contains details about the "loves and lusts" of six composers - Paganini, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Puccini and Sullivan.

There is a 22-page essay about Sir Arthur Sullivan, containing references derived from his diaries, which were often written in a special code which Sullivan used to record his various liaisons.

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