Daring Classics. Crazy Stories About Geniuses Who Created Art and Broke All the Rules

This book — a collection of anecdotes about geniuses: scandalous, crazy, passionate, and completely unlike what you were told in school. Stories that make you want to pour another glass and listen until morning.

Victoria Haynak — musician, lecturer, master of eloquence, and author of the popular educational project «Intellect Under Prosecco». She will take you behind the scenes of geniuses, where there is no pomp. Only honest, daring, and incredibly vivid tales of those who created art and broke the rules.

You will learn:

- why Bach's music became a ringtone for normal guys 300 years later;

- how Mozart's father resembles modern internet moms and how this affected the composer;

- why Beethoven could be rude to kings and get away with it;

- how Mayakovsky became the main rapper of the revolution;

- and who should never read Dostoevsky.