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Title: Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Spaethling ISBN: 0-393-04719-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: This lively book will deepen your appreciation of Mozart
Comment: What a fine accomplishment! According to the introduction, this book contains about 2/3 of Mozart's surviving correspondence. It has letters from and to Mozart and the translations are very lively and bring the personality of the composer to life. In older translations it seems that care was taken to make him sound like the monumental cultural force that he has become. But in this book, Mozart is a boy, a young man, a young husband, a fiery genius, and at times lost, grieving, and even confused.
The book is organized chronologically and provides biographical information that gives each letter some context. There are many useful footnotes as well as a couple of maps and list of Mozart's travels. The author has even included some notes about the various currencies in order to help the reader understand the discussions of money in the letters.
I can't emphasize enough what a lively read this book is. I found that I simply didn't get bogged down and enjoyed reading it. Yes, there are some portions of some letters I skipped, but that is one of the beauties of the book. You don't get lost simply because you skipped some mundane portions of one letter or another.
Mr. Spaethling is to be congratulated on this fine achievement. If you are interested in Mozart in any way, this book will deepen your appreciation of the living breathing person who wrote all that music. It didn't come from some alien dimension. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, this wonderful and complex human being did it all and we are much richer for it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A whole new view of Mozart
Comment: Those of us who know a little about Mozart believe that he was perfection incarnate, part angel, fluttering down to endow the world with heavenly music. (There probably is some truth to that.) This book, however, reveals a whole new side of Mozart, a very human side. As beautiful as Mozart's music is, the more beautiful it becomes after reading this book. Understanding his big heart, hard work and, yes, even imperfections, increases one's appreciation of his music.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bravo!
Comment: This book enabled Mozart come to life for me. The translation was very good. It showed, (in english), how Mozart worked on his grammar and spelling as he got older. Since he was "home educated", he had to work at this.
I could not put this book down, reading a few letters every day, I saw how Mozart grew from a boy into a man with a family. He was a really good guy, it's a shame he had to die so young.
I would say, to anyone who wants to know more about Mozart, buy this book. You can form your own opinion of him, then you can buy the "expert's" books.
After having read this book, I would like to know more about Constanze!
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Title: Mozart: A Cultural Biography by Robert W. Gutman ISBN: 0156011719 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: 1791: Mozart's Last Year by H. C. Robbins Landon, M. C. Landon ISBN: 0500281076 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Neal Zaslaw, William Cowdery ISBN: 0393028860 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Letters of W. A. Mozart by Wolfgang A. Mozart ISBN: 0486228592 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1972 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Mozart: His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein, Arthur Mendel, Nathan Broder ISBN: 0195007328 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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