Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart A Biography

Name: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart A Biography
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ISBN: 9780226519616

ISBN-10: 0226519619

ISBN-13: 9780226519616

Edition: 2008

Authors: Piero Melograni, Lydia G. Cochrane

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Piero Melograni here offers a wholly readable account of Mozart’s remarkable life and times. This masterful biography proceeds from the young Mozart’s earliest years as a wunderkind—the child prodigy who traveled with his family to perform concerts throughout Europe—to his formative years in Vienna, where he fully absorbed the artistic and intellectual spirit of the Enlightenment, to his deathbed, his unfinishedRequiem, and the mystery that still surrounds his burial. Melograni’s deft use of Mozart’s letters throughout confers authority and vitality to his recounting, and his expertise brings Mozart’s eighteenth-century milieu evocatively to life. Written with a gifted historian’s flair for…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Preface


Prologue: June 1765: In a London Tavern



1756-1767: The Rise and Decline of the Child Prodigy



1767-1777: Searching for a Post with His Father



1777-1778: In Search of a Permanent Post with His Mother



1778-1780: A Difficult Homecoming



1780-1782: Winning Freedom



1782-1786: Vienna: Difficulties and Successes



1786-1790: The Great Italian Operas



1791: Mozart's Last Year


Epilogue: Mozart Lives On


Cited Works of Mozart



Note on the English Translation


Notes


Bibliographical Notes


Index