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Mozart's life was lived in the years that were central in forming the curltural composition of the modern era. The author sees the 18th century as beginning with two great but fundamentally different musical dynasties in place, bridged by Mozart's genius. This biography has at its core the premise that to illuminate the life and its works, one must understand first and foremost its cultural context. Accordingly, the author acts as our polymathic guide on a grand tour of the political, religious, social, economic and musical elements that define the 18th century, all the while keeping the story of Mozart's life life firmly in sight.

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Readers who think of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756--1791) as the shrieking vulgarian depicted in Peter Shaffer's hit play (and movie) Amadeus will be astonished by the man they meet in this biography by music historian Robert Gutman: "affectionate and generous...an austere moralist of vital force, incisiveness, and strength of purpose". Without scanting Mozart's often maladroit handling of his patrons or his earthy way with words ("Let the whole company of patricians lick my ass", he declared in a 1777 letter), Gutman portrays a musical genius who slowly and painfully achieved personal maturity as he emerged from the shadow of his domineering father. The rich cultural life of 18th-century Europe forms a vivid background for Mozart's professional and artistic evolution. And Gutman's descriptions of Mozart's work are models of music writing for the lay reader: they capture the brilliance and beauty of the great composer's art in easily accessible language, as in the analysis of the place of "The Marriage of Figaro" in "a new aesthetic of surging movement...the vocal and orchestral lines entwine, separate, and reunite in confrontation, opposition, and accommodation, an ever-changing, effortless interlacing". The prose delineating Mozart's complex personality is just as full-bodied and perceptive. --Wendy Smith
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