Lihoreau, Tim - Classic FM Composers Notes: Financial Triumphs and Disasters of the Great Composers  

We've all heard sad tales of impoverished composers - Mozart's final resting place in a pauper's grave, Beethoven arrested as a tramp, so shabby was his clothes. But is it all true? Is the composer's lot one of endless misery? Then there are the tales of composers who were fabulously wealthy. So who were the cash kings? And which composers were fiscal failures? Based on Classic FM's highly successful Composers' Notes radio series, this book gives you the ins & outs of composers' cashflow.