Most of the musician's homes Gefen and his two photographer collaborators present are the capacious structures successful people buy or build, yet a handful conform to the romantic image of the impecunious, austere composer. Schubert was born above the school his father ran and died in his brother's home; both buildings appear in warmer hues than one who lived in them might have seen. Beethoven could have dwelt in considerable comfort but moved a lot; the "almost rural cottage" in which he sojourned in the summer of 1802 is represented, though only by views of its courtyard and second-floor exterior gallery. Wagner, Verdi, Meyerbeer, Puccini, and Lehar lived quite grandly, as seems fitting for creaters of musical drama, and Chopin lived well, for a time, in the novelist George Sand's house. Most impressive is the only noncomposer's home in the book, Norwegian violinst Ole Bull's elaborate summer home, a fantasia of carved wood resembling a Moorish mosque incongruously located on a far northern island. A luscious, luxurious browsing album.