Amid a background of wars and revolution, the 19th century produced lots of the world’s best-loved composers including Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Tchaikovsky. Discover Music of the Intimate Era charts the span of music through these turbulent but exhilarating times with more than 20 music excerpts. Lighthearted but authoritative, it tells the interesting, often scandalous existence stories from the 19th century’s biggest composers and describes how they created musical history.