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Loves of Great Composers

by Gustav Kobbé read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)

Biography & Autobiography

2 hr 49 min 7 parts English First published 1905

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Part 1Mozart and his Constance

21 min

Part 2Beethoven and his "Immortal Beloved"

20 min

Part 3Mendelssohn and his Cecile

24 min

Part 4Chopin and the Countess Delphine Potocka

22 min

Part 5The Schumanns:Robert and Clara

20 min

Part 6Franz Liszt and his Carolyne

24 min

Part 7Wagner and Cosima

39 min

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Gustav Kobbe was a German/US music critic who worked at the time of Liszt and Wagner in particular, and was clearly in the Wagnerian rather than the Brahms camp. His unusual style of writing and his strongly romantic take on the loves of these seven composers…

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Published: 1905
Language: English

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