There is an endless fascination with the way people of genius as demonstrated by Vendome`s highly successful Writers Houses. This delightful sequel takes readers around the world from Mozart`s home in Salzburg to Chopin`s in Nohant, where he conducted a passionate affair with George Sand. Here are also the astonishing houses of great operatic composers; Richard Wagner`s Haus Wahnfried at Bayreuth (where Adolf Hitler was a frequent guest). Giacomo Puccini`s luxurious villa at Torre del Lago, its walls still lined with photographs of great opera stars and conductors, or the Villa de Sant`Agata where Giuseppe Verdi wrote most of Nabucco , Otello , Rigoletto , and Aida . The author, Gerard Gefen, brilliantly links each of the composers` houses, work, and life in a beautiful, all-color book that was years in the making.