Author: H. C. Robbins Landon
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500281079
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The premature death of Mozart is the subject of 1791, a study based upon Professor Landon's unrivalled understanding of source material relating to Mozart, his music and the events that became an enigma, a tragedy and a source of great controversy.
Author: Howard Chandler Robbins Landon
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Offers a detailed examination of Mozart's final months, discusses the cause of his death, and looks at his final compositions.
Author: Howard Chandler Robbins Landon
Publisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Author: Howard Chandler Robbins Landon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500512968
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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From the author of 1791: Mozarts Last Year and general editor of The Mozart Compendium, this international bestseller has received widespread critical acclaim. Entertainingly and authoritatively written, and richly illustrated with contemporary paintings and engravings, it provides a vivid account of the last decade of Mozarts short but amazingly prolific career one of the most remarkable periods in the entire history of Western music.
Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039305070X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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A fresh look at the life of Mozart during his imperial years by one of the world's leading Mozart scholars.
Author: Volkmar Braunbehrens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780233985596
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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Author: Matt Rees
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006209937X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Award-winning author Matt Rees takes readers to 18th centuryAustria, where Mozart’s estranged sister Nannerl stumblesinto a world of ambition, conspiracy, and immortal music while attempting touncover the truth about her brother’s suspicious death. Did Mozart’s life endin murder? Nannerl must brave dire circumstances tofind out, running afoul of the secret police, the freemasons, and even theAustrian Emperor himself as she delves into a scandal greater than she had everimagined. With captivating historical details, compelling characters, and areal-life mystery upon which everything hinges, Rees—the award-winning authorof the internationally acclaimed Omar Yussefcrime series—writes in the tradition of Irvin Yalom’sWhen Nietzsche Wept, Louis Bayard’s The Pale Blue Eye, andPhillip Sington’s The Einstein Girl to achievethe very best in historical fiction with Mozart’s Last Aria.
Author: Piero Melograni
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226519562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Author: Jan Swafford
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062433598
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious. He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all things pleasurable and fun. Mozart was known to be an inexplicable force of nature who could rise from a luminous improvisation at the keyboard to a leap over the furniture. He was forever drumming on things, tapping his feet, jabbering away, but who could grasp your hand and look at you with a profound, searching, and melancholy look in his blue eyes. Even in company there was often an air about Mozart of being not quite there. It was as if he lived onstage and off simultaneously, a character in life’s tragicomedy but also outside of it watching, studying, gathering material for the fabric of his art. Like Jan Swafford’s biographies Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Mozart is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: a man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, it’s nearly impossible to understand classical music’s origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself.
