- Hardcover: 318 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (26 Jan 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195182642
- ISBN-13: 978-0195182644
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 17.1 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,015,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Elegantly straightforward, engaging and informative, thought-provoking and enlightening... this is perhaps the finest concise study of Mozart and his music yet written. (Piano Magazine )
Rushton tells the Mozart story with sympathy and understanding... Authoritative, up-to-date and reliable. (Peter Williams, Times Literary Supplement )
The ideal general biography of Mozart. (thehistorychannel.co.uk )
...the general reader will be splendidly served by this superb introduction to the life and works, and the expert will have much to contemplate. (David Grayson, Music and Letters, Vol. 88, No. 2 )
Rushton tells the Mozart story with sympathy and understanding... Authoritative, up-to-date and reliable. (Peter Williams, Times Literary Supplement )
The ideal general biography of Mozart. (thehistorychannel.co.uk )
...the general reader will be splendidly served by this superb introduction to the life and works, and the expert will have much to contemplate. (David Grayson, Music and Letters, Vol. 88, No. 2 )
Peter Williams, Times Literary Supplement
"Rushton tells the Mozart story with sympathy and understanding... Authoritative, up-to-date and reliable."
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THE COMPOSER'S FATHER, JOHANN GEORG LEOPOLD MOZART, was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, in November 1719; his mother, Anna Maria Walburga Pertl, was baptised on Christmas day 1720 at St Gilgen, an outlying settlement dependent on Salzburg. Read the first page
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THE COMPOSER'S FATHER, JOHANN GEORG LEOPOLD MOZART, was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, in November 1719; his mother, Anna Maria Walburga Pertl, was baptised on Christmas day 1720 at St Gilgen, an outlying settlement dependent on Salzburg. Read the first page
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BUYER BEWARE....For Musicians ONLY!
31 Jan 2009
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If you are like me and have seen and enjoyed the Mozart operas and own a few CD's of his music, but cannot read music then this book is not for you. If you want to know more about Mozart the man, look elswhere as Rushton skips over details the layman might wish to know more about only to get to analyses. I wouldn't know if it is in depth or not.
The biographical information the author does relay is informative, though bland and colorless.
I wouldn't recommend this book to any but aspiring or professional classical musicians as they would be able to glean much more information from it than I, but even then, I would cite this book as an example of what is wrong with classical music and its fandom today. It completely strips ALL emotion from one of the most emotional composers who ever lived and tries to reduce him and his music to technicalities and forgets why the reader or listener chooses W.A. Mozart over his contemporaries in the first place. In short the book has no heart.
The biographical information the author does relay is informative, though bland and colorless.
I wouldn't recommend this book to any but aspiring or professional classical musicians as they would be able to glean much more information from it than I, but even then, I would cite this book as an example of what is wrong with classical music and its fandom today. It completely strips ALL emotion from one of the most emotional composers who ever lived and tries to reduce him and his music to technicalities and forgets why the reader or listener chooses W.A. Mozart over his contemporaries in the first place. In short the book has no heart.
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