Obscene Child
Sheila Fitzpatrick: Mozart, 5 July 2007
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography
by Piero Melograni, translated by Lydia Cochrane.
Chicago, 300 pp., £19, December 2006,0 226 51956 2 Show More
by Piero Melograni, translated by Lydia Cochrane.
Chicago, 300 pp., £19, December 2006,
Mozart: The First Biography
by Franz Niemetschek, translated by Helen Mautner.
Berghahn, 77 pp., £17.50, November 2006,1 84545 231 3 Show More
by Franz Niemetschek, translated by Helen Mautner.
Berghahn, 77 pp., £17.50, November 2006,
Mozart’s Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music
by Jane Glover.
Pan, 406 pp., £7.99, April 2006,0 330 41858 0 Show More
by Jane Glover.
Pan, 406 pp., £7.99, April 2006,
“... through the Vienna night by Antonio Salieri to the sound of the Dies irae from the Requiem. Franz Niemetschek, Mozart’s contemporary, whose biography (not the first, pace Berghahn, but the second) was published in 1798, concedes Mozart’s propensity for jokes but presents him as a gentle soul who, as Cliff Eisen remarks in his introduction, is ... ”
