Musicians who performed history. How the great composers are connected with repression, masons and revolutions

Mozart, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Verdi, Debussy ... Listening to their music means to feel the breath of the French revolution, feel the luxury of the empire or feel the horror of the dictatorship. Their talent became their way to express their attitude to the world, he promoted people to accomplish and gave them hope. From this book you will learn how the great masterpieces of classics were created and what helped them gain centuries -old glory.
In the book "Musicians at the epicenter of history", the fate of 13 composers who found themselves in the whirlwind of political and social events of their time are gathered. Despite all the difficulties, they did not break and were able to take this time under control, giving us in their works the living evidence of what was happening.
Here we are:
- We will see the life of Lully at the Versailles Court,
- We will spend the last seven years of his life with Mozart, which he devoted to Freemasonry,
- We will find ourselves next to Richard Strauss, covered in a whirlpool of Nazism,
- We will find out how Shostakovich created the music, persecuted by Stalin.
Note behind the note you will feel what they felt. Thanks to this book, you will not only better understand the context of creating famous masterpieces, but you can also understand that music without words is sometimes louder than any speeches from the rostrum.
The author of the book Laura Dotrish is a French writer, journalist, musicologist and violin