The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 continues Rupert Hughes’s popular account of the romantic lives of celebrated composers. Drawing on biography and anecdote, Hughes recounts the loves, marriages, and heartbreaks that touched the great figures of music.
Written in an entertaining and readable style, the book treats its subjects’ personal histories with sympathy and a storyteller’s relish, linking their emotional lives to the music they created. It belongs to a once-popular genre of musical biography aimed at the general reader. Light in tone but grounded in fact, the volume offers an engaging human portrait of the composers behind the masterpieces.