Mozart and Vienna: Including selections from Johann Pezzl's 'Sketch of Vienna' 1786-90 - Hardcover

H. C. Robbins Landon

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9780500015063: Mozart and Vienna: Including selections from Johann Pezzl's 'Sketch of Vienna' 1786-90

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ISBN 10: 0500015066 ISBN 13: 9780500015063

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1991

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HardCover Pub Date: 1991 Pages: 208 in Publisher: Thames & Hudson When. in October 1762. the Mozart family arrived in Vienna from Salzburg. Wolfgang - the six-year-old child prodigy - immediately became a star attraction. both in the court of Maria Theresa and among the musical establishment.Inevitably. Leopold Mozart's ambitious hopes for his son and Wolfgang's extraordinary talents led to further visits - in 1767-8 and 1773 - marked by such problems as an attack of smallpox and the jealous intrigues of other less gifted composers. and culminated in Wolfgang's decision to settle in Vienna in 1781.In Mozart and Vienna. HC Robbins Landon combines his own vivid and immensely readable account of Mozart's association with Vienna with extracts from John Pezzl's Sketch of Vienna. published in the years 1786-90. Pezzl. born like Mozart in 1756. was also a member of the same Masonic...

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H. C. Robbins Landon is known internationally as a musicologist and is one of the world's leading authorities on Mozart. He has written numerous books on the subject including The Mozart Compendium, 1791: Mozart's Last Year and The Mozart Essays.

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