Stephen Fry's Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music
By Unknown Author.
Description
A riotous, rambling, and incomplete history of classical music, complete with leg measurementsStephen Fry presents a potted and brilliantly rambling 700-year history of classical music and the world as we know it. Along this musical journey he casually throws in references to pretty much whatever takes his fancy, from the Mongol invasion of Russia and Mr. Khan (Genghis to his friends), the founding of the MCC, the Black Death (which once again became the new black in England), to the heady revolutionary atmosphere of Mozart's Don Giovanni and the deep doo-doo that Louis XVI got in...
ISBN(s)
0330438565, 9780330438568
