Mozart: A Life

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Harper Collins, 13.10.2009 - 658 Seiten

On the occasion of Mozart's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, read Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life, universally hailed as the Mozart biography of our time.

 

Inhalt

The Myth of the Eternal Child
3
BEGINNINGS
19
Leopold Mozart
21
Early Days
35
The Grand Journey
43
The Family Treasure
55
A Vienna Sojourn
67
The Italian Journeys
77
A Mothers Death
177
Trouble in Paradise
187
Parallel Lives
211
Farewell to Salzburg
221
VIENNA
225
Arrival
241
ENDINGS
377
Mozarts Vienna Earnings
521

SALZBURG
78
The Favorite Son
97
A Composers Voice
115
A Fools Errand
137
Mozart in Love
161
Abbreviations
529
Selected Bibliography
593
List of Illustrations
611
General Index
625
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Maynard Solomon's books on Beethoven and his renowned writings on Mozart, Schubert, and Ives led a contributor to Music & Letters to name him "the leading musicologist-biographer of our time." His classic biography, Beethoven, has been translated into seven languages and his Beethoven Essays received the Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for best book of the year in 1989. Mr. Solomon, who lives in New York, has taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities.

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