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

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

Letters by Mozart in sparkling new translations that capture the flavor of the writing, transmit every nuance, and render every thought faithfully and accurately.
What was Mozart really likeâ€•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 yearsâ€•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.

Country	USA
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780393047196
Edition	1st
ISBN	0393047199
Label	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	416
PublicationDate	2000-08
Publisher	W. W. Norton & Company
Studio	W. W. Norton & Company
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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

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