My Favorite Intermissions: Victor Borge's Lives of the Musical Greats and Other Facts You Never Knew You Were Missing

by Robert Sherman, Victor Borge, Robert Sherman Victor Borge

Book Overview

You laugh when Borge sits down at the piano - now that he has sat down at the typewriter, you'll roar. Had Beethoven, Wagner, Berlioz, Mozart and the other great composers in this book known that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038502651X
• ISBN13: 9780385026512
• Release Date: August 1971
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Surprising secrets of the great composers

This hilarious book tells you all the things you never knew about the lives of famous composers. If you want to read about Beethoven in jail, Strauss being picketed by his second wife, the wild romantic infatuations of Berlioz, and Verdi rleuctantly writing operas when he only wanted to raise horses, this is the book for you. you don't actually have to be interested in composers or classical music to enjoy this book, it is just very very funny. You'll never feel the same about the 'Ring' cycle again when you've read about Wagner's pink satin underwear.

A pleasure to read

A must-read for a Borge fan. The "Great Dane" transfers his gift for musical comedy into insightful, enjoyable writing.