Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: selected letters

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Author), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Author), Robert Spaethling (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.26

  Carefully chosen, the letters span almost 22 years - from Mozart's first journey to Italy as a shy teenage to his final months in Vienna - and with the accompanying introductions, chronicle the intimate thoughts, day-to-day existence and artistic growth of one of the world's best-loved composers. These new translations capture faithfully the vibrant, earthy flavour of the writing, even retaining the misspellings and inaccuracies of the original German, and are rich in the details of the people, places and events of Mozart's life.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.26

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $14.58

  What was Mozart really like? Responsible? Fun-loving? Foul-mouthed? Sublime? Reading these sparkling new translations of more than 275 of Mozart?s letters and postscripts written over a span of almost 22 years, we learn in his own words that he was all of these and much more. Here is the composer at his most intimate and unguarded, expressing his feelings about life, love, music, and the world around him.