Amadeus

by Peter Shaffer

Amadeus: What Do I Read Next?


Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Norton Introduction to Music History, by Philip G. Downs (1992), presents a useful study of Mozart and his contemporaries.

Shaffer's play Equus, produced in 1973, presents another exploration of two men of widely differing personalities linked by a common spiritual bond.

In Mozart in Revolt: Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception (1999), David P. Schroeder examines the letters Mozart and his father wrote to each other. He discovers important information about the personality of each man...

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