The Mozart Forgeries by Daniel N Leeson

The Mozart Forgeries by Daniel N Leeson

Mozart's music, forged manuscripts, and a murder Could any music aficionado who enjoys a unique, fascinating, and well-told tale ask for more? - Conductor George Cleve, Music Director, San Francisco's Midsummer Mozart Music Festival.

The idea of creating a counterfeit of a genuine Mozart manuscript is outrageous, but to attempt the forging of two such compositions for the purpose of a technical/musical swindle is an order of magnitude more aggressive. Yet that is exactly what Forger, a counterfeiting genius, and Librarian, an eighteenth century document specialist, decide to do, their motivation being a $20,000,000 price tag. They are faced with incredible impediments not the least of which is the authentication of both documents by some of the world's leading Mozart scholars. From any perspective, the effort appears preposterous.

Their choice of compositions are the lost manuscripts of Mozart's clarinet concerto and his quintet for clarinet and strings. Each stage of the effort is, by itself, an awesome undertaking, what with handwriting, paper, ink, watermarks, pens, and a great deal of imprecise history surrounding both works-- the originals of which disappeared around 1800. Together, they combine to create a task so technically difficult that the probability of success is only slightly less than winning the Irish sweepstakes without buying a ticket.

The author, one of America's leading Mozart authorities, is a prize-winning technical writer who also dabbles in fiction. His imaginative and skillful handling of the story's details walks the reader--sometimes not very gently--through each stage of the awesome effort. This entirely fictitious story is his contribution to the events of 2006, which are intended to commemorate the quarter millennium of Mozart's birth.

www.leesonbooks.com.

Leeson's degrees are in mathematics and he was an employee of the IBM Corporation for almost 30 years, after which he taught mathematics at De Anza College in California State for another 15 years. He is also one of America's leading Mozart specialists, with a particular emphasis on Mozart portraiture. He has published articles in the Mozart; Letters, Eighteenth Century Music

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ISBN 13	9780595316762
ISBN 10	059531676X
Titel	The Mozart Forgeries
Autor	Daniel N Leeson
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	iUniverse
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-06-16
Seitenanzahl	336
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