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Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life
Professor Robert Spaethling
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Description for Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life
Paperback. These letters span almost 22 years, from Mozart's first journey to Italy as a shy teenager to his final months in Vienna. The translations capture his unique idiom and spirit, retaining the misspellings and inaccuracies of the original German. Num Pages: 512 pages, 8pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 346.
What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart's 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.
What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart's 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571222926
SKU
V9780571222926
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-34
About Professor Robert Spaethling
Robert Spaethling is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Massachusetts, and is the author of several books on Mozart, including Music and Mozart in the Life of Goethe. He was raised in the Bavarian town of Weissenstadt, whose local dialect resembles that of Mozart's Salzburg.
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