Mozart: A Life - Hardcover

Solomon, Maynard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060190469 ISBN 13: 9780060190460

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1995

Synopsis

Exploding the myth of Mozart as the "eternal child" and revealing unknown aspects of his family relationships, a definitive biography utilizes bold interpretations and insights, as well as modern analysis to examine Mozart's personality in a new light.

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Review:

"I do not know a musician's biography as satisfying and as moving as this one."--Edward W. Said, "New Yorker""Clearly the Mozart biography for our time."--Robert L. Marshall, Brandeis University"Brilliant.""--New York Times Book Review"

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0060190469
• ISBN 13: 9780060190460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1