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ISBN: 9780571222926 - Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life
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Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life

Robert Spaethling

ISBN: 9780571222926
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Faber and Faber
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These letters span almost 22 years, from Mozart's first journey to Italy as a shy teenager to his final months in Vienna. The translations capture his unique idiom and spirit, retaining the misspellings and inaccuracies of the original German.

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What was Mozart really like? Responsible? Fun-loving? Foul-mouthed? Sublime? Reading these sparkling new translations of more than 275 of Mozart?s letters and postscripts written over a span of almost 22 years, we learn in his own words that he was all of these and much more. Here is the composer at his most intimate and unguarded, expressing his feelings about life, love, music, and the world around him.
 
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