Bibliograph

Mozart, the reign of love, Jan Swafford

Type

Label

Mozart, the reign of love, Jan Swafford

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [745]-775) and indexes

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesportraitsmusicillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mozart

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1225070318

Responsibility statement

Jan Swafford

Sub title

the reign of love

Summary

"At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart's singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious. He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all things pleasurable and fun... Like Jan Swafford's biographies Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Mozart is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: a man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, it's nearly impossible to understand classical music's origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself." --, Amazon.com

Target audience

adult

Classification