What to Listen for in Mozart: The Essential Introduction to the World's Most Beloved Composer - Softcover

Harris, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743244044 ISBN 13: 9780743244046

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Synopsis

An introduction to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart explores the essentials of his work, examining his place in the aristocratic society of the late eighteenth century, and discusses 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: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743244044
• ISBN 13: 9780743244046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288