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Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer

by Peter Shaffer

0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award. In the United States, the play won the coveted Tony Award and went on to become a critically acclaimed major motion picture winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture. Now, this extraordinary work about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is available with a... (more)

Mozart: A Cultural Biography

by Robert W. Gutman

This major work, the result of years of careful study and analysis, places Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual, political and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. The result is a fresh interpretation of Mozart's genius, as Robert Gutman shows the great composer in a new light. With an informed and sensitive handling, Mozart emerges as an affectionate and generous... (more)

Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"A wonderful collection that gives Mozart a voice as a son, husband, brother and friend." — New York Times Book Review "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... (more)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer's World)Wendy Thompson

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer's World)

by Wendy Thompson

"Composer's World" is a new series of picture books for readers aged ten upwards, illustrating the lives and times of the world's greatest composers. It examines each composer's life and work within the context of the external factors which influenced his career. Almost 200 years ago Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in poverty at the age of 35. Born into a Europe dominated by the aristocracy, where composers relied on... (more)

Mozart and Vienna

by H. C. Robbins Landon

As 1991 is the bicentenary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, worldwide attention will be focused on the composer and his music. Author H.C. Robbins Landon presents a dazzling portrait of 18th-century Vienna and Mozart, with a unique look at the crucial years when Mozart struggled to transform himself from a precocious boy to the creative genius he was to become.

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One False Note

by Gordon Korman