Stephen Fry: Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

by Fry, Stephen

ISBN: 9780752265582

Published: 2015-10

Stephen Fry presents a 700-year history of classical music and the world as we know it. Along this musical journey he throws in references to pretty much whatever takes his fancy, from the Mongol invasion of Russia and Mr Khan (Genghis to his friends), the founding of the MCC, the Black Death (which once again became the new black in England), to the heady revolutionary atmosphere of Mozart's Don Giovanni and the deep doo-doo that Louis XVI got into