Секреты великих композиторов. Издание 2-е, дополненное

Artem Vargaftik - izvestnyĭ muzykalʹnyĭ kritik, radio- i telezhurnalist. Ego peredachi "Orkestrovai͡a i͡ama" i "Partitury ne gori͡at" byli udostoeny nat͡sionalʹnoĭ televizionnoĭ premii "TĖFI". S 2007 goda A. Vargaftik sotrudnichaet s Moskovskoĭ filarmonieĭ i drugimi kont͡sertnymi organizat͡sii͡ami strany v kachestve lektora. Nastoi͡ashchai͡a kniga po zhanru napominaet "muzykalʹnoe rassledovanie". Interesno uznavatʹ, kak v zerkale vremeni iskazhai͡utsi͡a te ili inye prostye veshchi i sobytii͡a, kak oni priobretai͡ut cherty mnogoznachitelʹnosti, velichii͡a, zagadochnosti ili naprotiv - demonizirui͡utsi͡a i obest͡senivai͡utsi͡a. Avtor rasskazyvaet o muzykalʹnykh legendakh, mistifikat͡sii͡akh, taĭnakh poi͡avlenii͡a znamenitykh partitur, stavshikh mirovoĭ klassikoĭ. Geroi͡ami knigi stali Maler, Betkhoven, Vagner, Bize, Mot͡sart, Salʹeri, Gendelʹ, Shopen, Paganini, Shuman i drugie, v biografii͡akh kotorykh chitateli͡u otkroetsi͡a mnogo neozhidannogo.

Artyom Vargaftik is a well–known music critic, radio and television journalist. His programs "Orchestra Pit" and "Scores don't burn" were awarded the national television award "TEFI". Since 2007, A. Vargaftik has been collaborating with the Moscow Philharmonic and other concert organizations of the country as a lecturer. This book is similar in genre to the musical investigation. It is interesting to find out how certain simple things and events are distorted in the mirror of time, how they acquire features of significance, grandeur, mystery, or, on the contrary, are demonized and devalued. The author talks about musical legends, hoaxes, and the mysteries of famous scores that have become world classics. The heroes of the book are Mahler, Beethoven, Wagner, Bizet, Mozart, Salieri, Handel, Chopin, Paganini, Schumann and others, in whose biographies the reader will discover many unexpected things.