Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life - Softcover

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'Should be on the shelves of every music lover.' BBC Music Magazine; 'Whatever he writes about, Mozart imparts his own vivid and unusual personality to it. His view of the world and its inhabitants is always forthright, often deliciously askew. The miracle is that these letters were preserved. Their recipients must have realised they were special. This is a splendid volume and its value is enhanced by a marvellous index.' Michael Kennedy, Sunday Telegraph; 'The great glory of this volume is Spaethling's willingness to embrace Mozart's writing in all its zany, often angry effervescence.' Fiona Maddocks, Observer

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What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these 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.

In this collection, Robert Spaethling has carefully chosen letters written by Mozart over a span of almost twenty-two years - from his first journey to Italy as a shy teenager to the final months of his life in Vienna. The letters, together with the accompanying introductions, chronicle the composer's life, personal development and artistic growth.

These new translations into English, the first in more than sixty years, are faithful to the original German even to the point of misspellings, which abound in the early correspondence. No effort has been spared to find language as closely equivalent to Mozart's as any translation can be and to clear up references in the letters to people, places, and events. The result is a book that makes wonderful reading for anyone who has ever loved a work by the composer, and been curious about the personality behind the music.