Olga Leonenkova is the author of the popular channel about music “Cultshpargalka”. In its issues, it publishes stories about the creation of world-famous musical compositions, tells facts from the biographies of composers, and generally talks about the history of music. How did great composers create their most recognizable masterpieces? In this book you will find fascinating stories about the works of Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi and many others. You may not have extensive knowledge of the world of classical music, but many of the tunes are so well known that you will probably find more than one or two familiar compositions. To complete the picture, a QR code has been added to each chapter to listen to the most successful performance of the work in the opinion of the author.