Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters - Hardcover

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Spaethling, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393047199 ISBN 13: 9780393047196

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

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. For 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. Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life makes wonderful reading for anyone who has ever loved a work by the composer, from the deceptively simple Eine kleine Nachtmusik to the towering, magnificent Requiem.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393047199
• ISBN 13: 9780393047196
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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