Research Catalog

Title

Musical mysteries : from Mozart to John Lennon / Albert Borowitz.

Author

Borowitz, Albert, 1930-2023

Publication

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2010.

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Details

Description

xiii, 177 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This title offers an engrossing look at the interplay between crime and music. Crime has formed the basis of countless plots in music theater and opera. Several famous composers were murder victims or believed to be murdered, and one of the greatest Renaissance composers slaughtered his wife and her lover. In "Musical Mysteries", renowned true crime historian Albert Borowitz turns his attention to the long and complex history of music and crime.

Series Statement

True crime history series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• True crime history series

Subject

• Music and crime
• Crime in music
• Musicians > Death

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lully and the death of Cambert -- Salieri and the "murder" of Mozart -- Finale marked presto : the killing of Leclair -- Carlo Gesualdo : murder and madrigals -- Alessandro Stradella : revenge for love -- The tragic night of Anton Webern -- The deadly vacation of Marc Blitzstein -- The stalking of John Lennon -- Lamech, the second biblical killer : a song with variations -- Gilbert and Sullivan on corporation law : Utopia, Limited and the Panama Canal frauds -- "Pore Jud is daid" : violence and lawlessness in the plays of Lynn Riggs.

ISBN

• 9781606350263 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 1606350269 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009047059

OCLC

• 468232176
• SCSB-10087511

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library