Nor have the scholarly efforts of modern biographers dislodged the images that fond music lovers like to summon up when they hear his name: Mozart the wilful child unable to outgrow his infantile ways the wizard so captivating that no one dared to question his credentials for a moment, the miracle worker who never needed to revise a single note in his lightning-quick impromptu inspirations the exhausted volcano who took the mysterious commission to compose a requiem as a supernatural hint at his own impending demise the derelict who was buried in a pauper’s grave.Įveryone familiar with the Amadeus film of Milos Forman will recognize some of these images.

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Peter Gay's Mozart illuminates both the man and the age with the eloquent economy that will introduce to a new generation of readers this once popular literary form.'-Jacket Here is the archetypal child prodigy whose genius triumphed over early precociousness, and who later broke away from a loving but tyrannical father to pursue his vision unhampered.' 'Peter Gay's Mozart traces the legendary development of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievement, and the composer who pushed every instrument to its limit and every genre - especially opera - into new realms. His passionate and painstaking research reveals truths more fascinating than the myths that have long shrouded the maestro's life.

'Mozart's unshakable hold on the public's fascination can only be strengthened by the historian and biographer Peter Gay's new perspective.

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