We test each other on some of classical music history’s strangest stories. Why did Haydn make his orchestra walk off stage one by one? What happened when Beethoven’s hero Napoleon declared himself Emperor? How did Bach and Handel end up connected to the same terrifying eighteenth-century eye surgeon? And what exactly was Chopin writing to his male roommate?

Along the way, we encounter Isadora Duncan dancing Wagner barefoot, the chaos surrounding the premiere of The Rite of Spring, some surprisingly operatic English queens — and take a detour to Bayreuth to ask what happens when AI enters Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk.


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