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In Monsters of Music, Tom Allen uncovers the scandalous lives of classical musicians.

Handel was a glutton, a royal composer and maybe a spy, but was he really a monster?

Maria Callas's life was as dramatic as an operatic storyline. But was she really a Diva?

Richard Wagner was a romantic, a revolutionary and bitter antisemite.

Claude Debussy was a love rat who left behind a trail of broken hearts and gunshot wounds.

Liszt was a monk, a sex symbol, and a pianist who made nuns faint and forget their vows.

Blackmail, affairs and a secret love child. Was Puccini the bad boy of the Opera world?

Anton Bruckner was a composer fascinated with death, religion and teenage girls.

Percy Grainger had a fetish for whips, blood-stained shirts and folk melodies.

Ethel Smyth was a trailblazing composer, suffragette and no stranger to passionate affairs

A composer, heartbreaker, socialite and antisemite. Who was the real Alma Mahler?