Synopses & Reviews
Peter Gay's Mozart traces the legendary development of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievement, and the composer who pushed every instrument to its limit and every genre especially opera into new realm.
About the Author
Peter Gay is director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library and Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is the author of The Enlightenment: the Science of Freedom which won a National Book Award in America, and of the bestselling Freud: A Life for Our Time and My German Question: Growing up in Nazi Berlin. He lives in Connecticut.