Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life by Robert Spaethling

Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life by Robert Spaethling

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What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart's letters, 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.

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Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life by Robert Spaethling

What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart's letters, 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.
Robert Spaethling is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Massachusetts, and is the author of several books on Mozart, including Music and Mozart in the Life of Goethe. He was raised in the Bavarian town of Weissenstadt, whose local dialect resembles that of Mozart's Salzburg.
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ISBN 13 9780571222926
ISBN 10 0571222927
Title Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life
Author Robert Spaethling
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2004-04-15
Number of pages 512
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