Title That jealous demon, my wretched health : disease, death and composers / Jonathan Noble ; foreword by Petroc Trelawny

Published Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, plates Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Frailty of Youth -- Mozart -- Bellini -- Bizet -- Pergolesi -- Purcell -- 2. Triumphant Old Age -- Joseph Haydn -- Saint-Saens -- Elgar -- Sibelius -- Monteverdi -- Verdi -- Johann Strauss II -- Janacek -- R Strauss -- Vaughan Williams -- 3. Iatrogenic Afflictions -- J.S. Bach -- Handel -- Holst -- Gershwin -- Ravel -- 4. Syphilis -- Schubert -- Smetana -- Delius -- Wolf -- Donizetti -- Chabrier -- 5. Alcoholism -- Arnold -- Lambert -- Field -- Satie -- Musorgsky -- Glazunov -- 6. Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and Suicide -- Schumann -- Bruckner -- Tchaikovsky -- Gesualdo -- Jeremiah Clarke -- Warlock (aka Heseltine) -- 7. Nerves Beyond the Edge: Other Afflictions of the Nervous System -- Shostakovich -- Prokofiev -- Berlioz -- Gluck -- Gounod -- Mendelssohn -- Copland -- 8. Broken Hearts -- Liszt -- Wagner -- Dvorak -- Mahler -- Nielsen -- Britten -- Borodin -- Rimsky-Korsakov -- Poulenc -- 9. Breathless: Respiratory Diseases -- Weber -- Chopin -- Grieg -- Stravinsky -- Vivaldi -- Schoenberg -- 10. Cancer -- Rossini -- Debussy -- Brahms -- Puccini -- Rachmaninov -- Bartok -- Finzi -- Massenet -- 11. Ultimate Blow: Deafness -- Beethoven -- Faure Summary Despite much triumph in adversity, illness fuelling composition is a misconception Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June25, 2018) Subject Composers -- Death Composers -- Diseases Composers -- Health and hygiene MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical. MUSIC -- Reference. Composers -- Diseases Composers -- Health and hygiene Form Electronic book Author Trelawny, Petroc, writer of introduction ISBN 9781787442283 1787442284

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