Författare: Neil Wenborn

Mendelssohn is one of the world’s best-loved composers. His greatest music – The Hebrides, the Violin Concerto, the ’Italian’ Symphony – is a cornerstone of the classical repertoire, while the ’Weddi …

Dvorak is one of the giants of nineteenth-century music. His ’New World’ Symphony is among the best loved works in the classical repertoire, and his inexhaustibly rich and varied output remains a sta …

Religion is central to the lives of millions of people around the globe. But how did the great religions begin, and what do their followers believe? Religions of the World tells the remarkable story …

Confucius stands alone among the world’s greatest thinkers. Perhaps no other teacher has exerted so powerful a hold over so many people for so long. For two and a half millennia his sayings, preserve …

Napoleon is one of the giants of modern history. From the last days of the French Revolution to the epochal battle of Waterloo, he bestrode the political landscape of Europe like a colossus, and the …

The French Revolution marked the birth of modern Europe. From the storming of the Bastille to the horrors of the guillotine, the events of 1789 and after are among the most stirring – and most distur …

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This book traces the remarkable course of a creative career which spanned the drawing rooms of the Imperial Russia and the social ferment of 1960s America, and serve to establish Stravinsky not only …