What to Listen for in Mozart - Hardcover

Harris, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671750925 ISBN 13: 9780671750923

Publisher: Summit Books, 1992

Synopsis

Explores the essentials of Mozart's music, examining his place in the aristocratic society of the late eighteenth century and discussing his life and death

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Harris is the author of Pompeii, Enigma, and Fatherland. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. His novels have sold more than ten million copies and been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and four children.

From the Inside Flap:

l introduction to Mozart and the pleasures of classical music in a witty, exuberant style to match Mozart's own. What to Listen For in Mozart reveals the essence of Mozart’s music as well as his tumultuous life and times, examining his achievements within the aristocratic society of the late 1700’s, a society hovering on the brink of revolution , and the details of his career and tragic death, shunned and destitute at the age of thirty-five.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Summit Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0671750925
• ISBN 13: 9780671750923
• Binding: Hardcover