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24%OFFJane Glover - Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music - 9780330418584 - 9780330418584
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Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music

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Description for Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music paperback. A major new biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told through the prism of the women in his life Num Pages: 408 pages, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 196 x 28. Weight in Grams: 372.

Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women. He loved and respected them, composed for them, performed with them. This unique biography looks at his interaction with each, starting with his family (his mother, Maria Anna and beloved and talented sister, Nannerl), and his marriage (which brought his 'other family', the Weber sisters). His relationships with his artists are examined, in particular those of his operas, through whose characters Mozart gave voice to the emotions of women who were, like his entire female acquaintance, restrained by the conventions and structures of eighteenth-century society. This is their story as ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Pan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330418584
SKU
9780330418584
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About Jane Glover
In Jane Glover’s long and hugely successful career as a conductor, she has been Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Artistic Director of The London Mozart Players, and has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain. She appears regularly at the BBC Proms and is a regular broadcaster, with highlights including a television series on Mozart. ... Read more

Reviews for Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music
'unusual and original…readable, informative and moving…Glover uses her own experience as a conductor of Mozart's operas to give lucid and pertinent insights into the music…Glover's final chapter 'After Mozart' is the most rewarding and poignant in the book…Constanze emerges as a devoted wife, mother and lifelong promoter of Mozart. Glover neatly and satisfyingly ties up the loose ends in the ... Read more

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