Mozart : Everyman's Library-EMI Classics Music Companions

Combines a highly readable account of Mozart's life & times, with 3 accompanying CDs that contains almost 4 hours of listening. Wherever possible, this selection includes whole works rather than extracts. The book uses extracts from the voluminous correspondence of the Mozart family to amplify an intriguing story that is not only a model of clarity but refreshingly free from traditional sentimental clutter. Places the composer's father at the heart of Mozart's personal & creative life & deploys the cultural, social, & musical context of the late-18th-century Habsburg empire to present a rich, vivid, & sympathetic portrait of an artist whose popularity is matched by his greatness. Color & black & white illustrations.Steptoe, Andrew is the author of 'Mozart : Everyman's Library-EMI Classics Music Companions', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756796525 and ISBN 0756796520.