Music, The Only Truth: My fifty favourite classical composers: their stories, anecdotes and quotes

“I am in constant awe of the incredible composers that enchanted this world. They intrigued me, wondering what made them ‘tick’ as it were, and so I set out to learn more … their stories, foibles, anecdotes, quotes and so on. “I am in constant awe of the incredible composers that enchanted this world. They intrigued me, wondering what made them ‘tick’ as it were, and so I set out to learn more … their stories, foibles, anecdotes, quotes and so on.

This book is the culmination of my research.” – Talbot Cox. The foreword is by Richard Cock, Conductor and Music Entrepreneur and Dr Erika Bothma, Senior lecturer piano, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth. The front cover image is an impromptu pastel painting Talbot made of Mark Drobinsky, the celebrated Russian cellist who performed in Port Elizabeth and stayed with Talbot and his wife Elyse