Nicholas Slonimsky was one of the most popular writers on music throughout the world, combining quirky anecdotes and sharp observations on musicians and the music they play and compose. In this classic volume, now published by Routledge, he portrays a surreal and humorous world of medicinal music, musical schizophrenia, conductorless orchestras, suing seals, cat operas, musical beds and more. Slonimsky regales the reader with tales of Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini and the other expected Classical Music figures: the ugly ducking of Russian music, the Kafka of modern music and other sublime...