Mozart - Hardcover

Davenport, Marcia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880291249 ISBN 13: 9780880291248

Publisher: Hippocrene Books, 1987

Synopsis

[Read by Wanda McCaddon]

Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this biography recreates Mozart, the man and his music, against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and writing of Mozart was truly a labor of love, during which she retraced every journey he made, saw every dwelling (then extant) in which he had ever lived, every theatre where his works were first performed, and every library and museum where his manuscripts were then to be seen. In this eloquent work of historical reconstruction, Davenport lets her characters tell their own stories. She builds from Mozart's infancy toward the climactic meeting in 1787 of Mozart, Lorenzo Da Ponte, and Casanova in Prague, when Don Giovanni was being written, to Mozart's tragically early death. The result is a biography of such commanding stature that it has remained unassailable since its publication in 1932.

About this title

About the Author:

MARCIA DAVENPORT (1903-1996) was an American author and music critic. She began her writing career on the editorial staff of the New Yorker before writing her first book, Mozart, the first published American biography of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. She went on to become a bestselling novelist, and several of her books inspired movies starring some of Hollywood's top names.

Review:

''Brings a great man to life again.'' --New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Hippocrene Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0880291249
• ISBN 13: 9780880291248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416