Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music - Hardcover

Glover, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060563508 ISBN 13: 9780060563509

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006

Synopsis

A chronicle of the women Mozart was inspired by, fascinated with, and at times disappointed by reveals the important role they played in shaping the characters that appeared in the operas he wrote. 40,000 first printing.

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Review:

...required reading for practitioners and will enlighten the most casual listener. -- The Sunday Telegraph

Jane Glover has pulled off a coup des livres with her fresh take on Mozart's life and work.. -- John Allison, Music Critic, Sunday Telegraph

From the Publisher:

Advance praise for Mozart's Women

‘Jane Glover has produced a winner, showing us Mozart from a fresh and fascinating viewpoint: the women in his life. Constanze, for instance, emerges a different creature from the way she is usually portrayed, tempting the reader to revise judgement on her. Written in a delightful, accessible style, this is a book that anyone with an interest in Mozart should have. For the singer it is an indispensable treasure trove of information – altogether, hugely enjoyable’
Dame Janet Baker

‘Nowadays it seems that Mozart's genius had always existed, fully formed, from the first. But genius does not flourish in isolation. It is Jane Glover's great gift to show how the women surrounding Mozart – his sister Nannerl, his wife Constanze, and her three talented sisters – all influenced him, making their own contributions to the creation of the most fascinating, dazzling, and complex women on the opera stage’
Judith Flanders, author of Circle of Sisters and The Victorian House

‘Beautifully written and scholarly without seeming so’
Dame Felicity Lott

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060563508
• ISBN 13: 9780060563509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 406