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A biography of the greatest musical mind in Western history
Mozart’s unshakable hold on the public’s consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay’s concise and deft look at the genius’s life. Mozart traces the development of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievement, and the composer who pushed every instrument to its limit and every genre of classical music into new realms.
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In his lifetime, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart didn''t have the best of luck with his patrons. One of them, Archbishop Colloredo of Salzburg, actually had his chamberlain kick the composer in the ass to signal the end of his employment. Mozart has been luckier, however, with his biographers. In the last 20 years alone, he has been the subject of two fine books: Maynard Solomon''s meticulous study, which slides Mozart''s rather mystifying psyche under the analytic microscope, and Wolfgang Hildesheimer''s more sardonic effort, in which the author seems determined to strip every last bit of romantic
| 出版社 | Penguin |
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| 作者 | Peter Gay |