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Title: Letters of Mozart by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hans Mersmann, M. Bozman ISBN: 0-88029-087-0 Publisher: Dorset Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1987 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95

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Rating: 5
Summary: Meeting Mr. Mozart
Comment: This selection of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's letters show the same ebullient and warm-hearted spirit that vibrates through his music. It is obvious that these letters were not written for publication. They are as natural as conversation, as intimate as friendship and as warm as love. And they are tremendously fun to read.

One of my favorites concerns a statement that Mozart makes concerning the ease of difficulty in composing opera in German. In a letter dated February, 1783, Mozart writes to his father, "I side with the German. I prefer it even if it costs me more trouble. Every nation has its own opera, why not Germany? Is not German as singable as French and English? Is it not more so than Russian?"

"Even if it costs me more trouble," he writes. Aha! says I. He admitted that it's more trouble to put the German language to music. Gotcha!

To those of us who love his music, Mozart is rendered in these pages, in his own words, just as we expect. I envy the reader who meets him the first time in this book, then approaches his music. It will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Sunnye Tiedemann (aka Ruth F. Tiedemann)