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Mozart : a life in letters / edited by Cliff Eisen ; translated by Stewart Spencer.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.M9 A4 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Correspondence.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.
- Composers--Austria--Correspondence.
- Composers.
- Austria.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 647 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- The letters of one of the world's greatest composers
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen variously as a child prodigy, musical genius, tragic Romantic artist, and cultural icon is among the most written-about of all composers. This fascinating set of his letters offers a new understanding of his life story his marriage, compositions, performances, occasional money worries, opinions of fellow musicians, and complex relationship with his father and a revealing portrait of both the man and the musician.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0141441461
- 9780141441467
- OCLC:
- 70671489
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