Scandalous Overtures

Name: Scandalous Overtures
Released: 2026-03-09T06:18:49Z

Series from 2014

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Genres:	Unscripted

Their music may be well-known, but the mayhem surrounding their lives is not. Scandalous Overtures reveals the shocking stories behind history's most cherished classical musicians, the original bad boys of music.

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Scandalous Overtures

Series from 2014

Joseph Haydn: Haydn Go Seek

Peter Tchaikovsky: Fear and Loathing in St. Petersburg

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: How Did Mozart Really Die?

Ludwig van Beethoven: Beethoven's Death Wish

Carlo Gesualdo: Murderer at Large

Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach the Jailbird

Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Gnarly Demise of a Nasty Man

Franz Schubert: One Too Many Nights Out

Giuseppe Verdi: The Conspiracy to Get Him Back to Work

Johannes Brahms & Clara Schumann: Did They or Didn't They?

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Reborn Through Hypnosis

Hector Berlioz: Dressed to Kill

Richard Wagner: What Ever Happened to Wagner's Manuscripts?

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: High Times in Oakland, California

Johannes Brahms: Brahms, the Ladies, and the Trick Rocking Chair