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Mozart - The Reign of Love (Paperback, Main)
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Mozart - The Reign of Love (Paperback, Main)
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From acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the
definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in
history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From his earliest years it was
apparent that the singular imagination of Wolfgang Mozart was
tirelessly at work. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and
he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental
and physical, going at every part of his life with tremendous
gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing
anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all
things pleasurable and fun. As a man, Mozart was an inexplicable
force of nature who could rise from a luminous improvisation at the
keyboard to meow like a cat and leap over the furniture. He was
forever drumming on things, tapping his feet, seeming both present
and apart. But he also might grasp your hand and gaze at you with a
profound, searching and melancholy look in his blue eyes. It was as
if Mozart lived onstage and off simultaneously, a character in
life's tragicomedy but also outside of it, watching, studying,
gathering material for the fabric of his art. Like Swafford's
biographies Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and Charles Ives, Mozart is
both wide-ranging and intimate in its exploration of a genius in
his life and his setting: a man who rose from a particular time and
place, whose art would enrich the world for centuries to come, who
would immeasurably shape the future of classical music, who from
his age to ours has stood as the definition of a prodigy. As
Swafford reveals, to understand the evolution of music it is vital
to understand this singular genius as a man and an artist.
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