Your attention, contrary to usual, is offered not an audiobook, read by one of its authors, who does not need a special introduction by Stephen Fry, but what this book "grew out of." The fact is that in 2002, on the English radio station Classic FM, Fry made a series of programs called "The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music." After some time, according to Fry himself, he was forced to take part in the creation of a book with the same name.