click on the links for more details about each musician: Orpheus
(mythological) "...was a sober and gentle musician" Pythagoras
(c.580-c.500 BCE) "discovered that musical notes could be
translated into mathematical equations" Lord (George Gordon)
Byron (1788-1824) - his poems and his life set to music Arthur
Schopenhauer (1788-1860) - German philosopher whose Buddhist
related writings on music and animal rights had a significant
influence on many below. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) -
wrote poems about music Richard Wagner, (1813-83) German music-
drama composer. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist, also
an amateur musician and composer. Anti-Wagnerian Karl Klindworth
(1830-1916) German music professor, conductor of Berlin
Philharmonic, friend of Wagner. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(1844-1900) - German philosopher, also a minor composer. Lilli
Lehmann (1848-1929) German opera singer, especially of Wagner.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) - music critic for several
London journals in the 1880s &90s. Céci