Bøger af John Sainsbury

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John Wilkes is one of the most colourful and intriguing characters of eighteenth-century Britain. This biography provides a comprehensive examination of Wilkes throughout his long life. Taking a thematic, rather than chronological approach, it is divided into six main chapters covering family, ambition, sex, religion, class and money.

The publisher John Sainsbury produced this biographical dictionary of musicians in 1824. Drawing on French and German sources especially, it is a mine of information about musicians, performers and composers from the most famous to the now forgotten, and how they were perceived in Beethoven's day.