Myth and Score

by Myth and Score

The most famous stories about great composers, held up to the light: what the letters, records and music actually say. Some turn out true, some half true, some pure legend. Told calmly, at length. Read by a synthetic voice.

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6. Did Bach Really Walk 400 Kilometres to Hear Buxtehude?

In the autumn of 1705, a twenty-year-old church organist in Arnstadt asked for four weeks' leave, set out for Lübeck on the Baltic coast to hear the great Dieterich Buxte

Oct 30
40 min

5. Did Handel Write Messiah in a Trance?

Did Handel really write Messiah in a trance, weeping, with "all Heaven" before his eyes? And did King George the Second stand for the Hallelujah chorus? Tonight we hold b

Oct 30
41 min

4. How Did Tchaikovsky Really Die?

Nine days after he conducted the first performance of his last symphony, Tchaikovsky was dead. His family and four doctors said cholera, caught from a glass of unboiled w

Oct 30
41 min

3. Did Paganini Sell His Soul to the Devil?

Did the greatest violinist of his age buy his gift from the Devil? In Vienna in 1828, some listeners swore they saw a horned figure at Niccolò Paganini's elbow. In Paris,

Oct 30
40 min

2. Who Was Beethoven's Immortal Beloved?

In March 1827, days after Beethoven's death, his friends found a hidden letter in his desk: ten pencilled pages to a woman he called only his Immortal Beloved. No name, n

Oct 30
41 min

1. Did Salieri Really Poison Mozart?

Mozart died in Vienna in December 1791, and the rumour that Antonio Salieri had poisoned him has outlived both men. We follow the two composers through Vienna: the orphan

Oct 30
43 min

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