Mozart: A Life in Letters
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Mozart: A Life in Letters
By (Author) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Edited by Cliff Eisen
Translated by Stewart Spencer
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
17th November 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Composers and songwriters
Diaries, letters and journals
Biography: historical, political and military
Biography: arts and entertainment
780.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
688
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 29mm
468g
Description
New to Black Classics A selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology.
Author Bio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Austrian composer, widely recognised as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. Among his most famous works, with Lorenzo da Ponte as librettist: Le nozze di Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787) Cosi fan tutte (1790), Die Zauberflote (1791), La clemenza di Tito (1791). Cliff Eisen has published extensively on the life and works of W. A. Mozart, including the New Grove 'Mozart', the edited volumes Mozart Studies (Oxford University Press, 1991), Mozart Studies 2 (Oxford University Press, 1997) and New Mozart Documents (London, 1991). He is general editor of the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Mozart. Stewart Spencer is an authority on German literature and an editor of the journal of the Wagner Society. Barry Millington is the author of the highly acclaimed Master Musicians: Wagner and editor of The Wagner Compendium.
