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Synopsis
On the occasion of Mozart's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, read Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life, universally hailed as the Mozart biography of our time.
Synopsis
"Maynard Solomon writes with the grace of a novelist, the insight of a philosopher, and the precision of a detective. We come to know Mozart personally, as a musical genius, but more than that, as a living, breathing, thinking person." --Yo-Yo Ma
Considered one of the most important music biographies ever written, esteemed biographer Maynard Solomon draws on a half-century of new information to provide an in-depth account of Mozart's family life, his passions, and his personality.
Synopsis
The first full-scale biography in nearly 40 years of Mozart's life, passions, and personality. Based on recently released correspondence from the Mozart family, the book explodes the myth of this musical genius as the 'eternal child' and reveals him as a brilliant impresario. Solomon offers a new theory about the composer's crucial relationship with his exploitative father and how it related to his music. And after solving Mozart's 'Zoroastrian Riddles' for the first time, Solomon examines the wonderfully comic and obscene letters he penned to his cousin and disocvers a long-overlooked love affair.
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New York Times Book ReviewSynopsis
On the occasion of Mozart's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, read Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life, universally hailed as the Mozart biography of our time.
About the Author
Maynard Solomon's books on Beethoven and his renowned writings on Mozart, Schubert, and Ives led a contributor to Music & Letters to name him "the leading musicologist-biographer of our time." His classic biography, Beethoven, has been translated into seven languages and his Beethoven Essays received the Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for best book of the year in 1989. Mr. Solomon, who lives in New York, has taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities.