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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,
“... As Saul Bellow once wrote, we have a problem talking about Mozart. It is the fear of having to contemplate transcendence and being embarrassed by something for which we have no vocabulary. To make matters worse, Mozart composed sublime music but, in contrast to Beethoven, had the wrong personality for sublimity, being prone to clowning and lavatory humour ... ”
