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Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio (Paperback)
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The 'Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio'- Stendhal's first
published work - owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism
of its author. After the collapse of the Napoleonic empire, Henri
Beyle was jobless, soon destined to become a refugee and in
desperate need of money. His most abiding passion in life was
music, so why not write about it? Unfortunately, however, he knew
next to nothing about it. So, calmly and without the slightest pang
of conscience, he resolved to plunder the works of other writers -
in particular those of the musicologist Giuseppe Carpani, who was
annoyed and said so vociferously. The result of Stendhal's
unscrupulous plagiarism is one of the most fascinating literary
enigmas of all time. How is it that what started as a blatant act
of piracy evolved into a work of enduring genius? Despite its
unpropitious beginnings, this work represents the wrong-headedness
of a genius - and the singular Louis-Alexandre-Cesar Bomet who
signed the 'Lives' was already, in everything that mattered, the
man who was to be Stendhal, one of the most enduring literary
figures of the nineteenth century.
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