(Amadeus). With more than 200 stunning color photographs by noted
photographer Wendy McDougall, Classical Destinations takes readers
on a tour of the history and geography of classical music,
examining the lives of the great composers as related to their
places of birth, education, triumphs, and failures. For today's
traveler the book comes full-circle, describing how, through their
achievements, the great composers came to influence the places
where they lived and performed. In these pages readers can visit
Venice when it was home to Vivaldi, Salzburg as Mozart's prodigious
talents emerged, Leipzig during the time of Mendelssohn and
Schumann, Prague as growing Czech nationalism gripped Smetana, and
the Vienna where Beethoven faced incurable deafness. The reader
will accompany J. S. Bach through the towns of central Germany and
tour St. Petersburg as Tchaikovsky knew it. Beyond the cities,
Classical Destinations includes the dramatic landscapes of Norway
and Finland that made so much of an impression on the music of
Grieg and Sibelius.
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