Music & Medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert- Notes on Their Lives, Works, and Medical Histories
"An extremely well-done translation from the original  Germancombining excerpts from biographical writings, personal letters  and diaries.Written from the perspective of today's medical knowledge,  Neumayr is able to more accurately assess medical problems(with)  additional emphasis placed on how the composer's health influenced his  work.It is spellbinding reading." --Gail Berenson, Journal of the American Music Teacher"It is difficult to favor any chapter as each brings a wealth  of medical and musical history.The greatest value of Neumayr's book is  that it involves the reader emotionally in the lives of creative human  beings, who were also great composers. He accomplishes this with  scholarship but especially with humanity, never succumbing to  sentimentality." --Richard J. Bing, M.D., Nature Medicine"These unique volumes, filled with stimulating information,  anecdotes and sometimes far-fetched theories, will enthrall any  musically oriented biomedical researcher" --Robert M. Genta, Helicobacter