A Life in Letters

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stewart Spencer (Translator), Cliff Eisen (Editor)

Overview

A selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141441467
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/27/2007
Series:	Penguin Classics Series
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	304,778
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.17(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Austrian composer, widely recognised as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. Among his most famous works, with Lorenzo da Ponte as librettist: Le nozze di Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787) Cosi fan tutte (1790), Die Zauberflöte (1791), La clemenza di Tito (1791). Cliff Eisen has published extensively on the life and works of W. A. Mozart, including the New Grove 'Mozart', the edited volumes Mozart Studies (Oxford University Press, 1991), Mozart Studies 2 (Oxford University Press, 1997) and New Mozart Documents (London, 1991). He is general editor of the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Mozart. Stewart Spencer is an authority on German literature and an editor of the journal of the Wagner Society. Barry Millington is the author of the highly acclaimed Master Musicians: Wagner and editor of The Wagner Compendium.

Editorial Reviews

Though Mozart's letters have been well studied, Penguin here offers a new translation that might bring some new facets of his life and compositions to light. Famous individuals' letters also humanize them, making living, breathing people out of icons.

—Michael Rogers

Library Journal