Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life

"Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authority all shine out from these letters."--Sunday Times (London). " In Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life, Robert Spaethling presents "Mozart in all the rawness of his driving energies" (Spectator), preserved in the "zany, often angry effervescence" of his writing (Observer). Where other translators have ignored Mozart's atrocious spelling and tempered his foul language, "Robert Spaethling's new translations are lively and racy, and do justice to Mozart's restlessly inventive mind" (Daily Mail). Carefully selected and meticulously annotated, this collection of letters "should be on the shelves of every music lover" (BBC Music Magazine).

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 12/01/2005
Pages: 494
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780393328301

About the Author
Spaethling, Robert: - Robert Spaethling was raised in the Bavarian town of Weissenstadt. He attended the Universities of Regensburg and Wurzburg and has a Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Larkspur, California.