On Mozart

On Mozart is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would have us believe. He was certainly a genius--in that, the legends are correct, and the evidence abounds--but he was also a working composer in a society crowded with other working composers, and he had to make a living at his craft to maintain the style of living to which he and his family had become accustomed. By observing a realistic and human genius, the collection of essays portrays a more complex individual than the divinely inspired Mozart of myth, who took his notes directly from God.

Author: James M. Morris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/25/1994
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.03w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780521476614

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