Mozart (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Manuel Komroff
- First Published: 1956
- Time of Work: 1756–1791
- Setting: Salzburg, Vienna, Prague, Munich, and Paris
- Principal Characters: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart, Franz Josef Haydn, Constanze Weber Mozart
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Music or musicians, Genius, Composers, Austria or Austrians, Biography, Royal courts or courtiers, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Opera, operas, or operettas
- Locales: Paris, France, Vienna, Austria, Munich, Germany, Salzburg, Austria, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Form and Content
Manuel Komroff addresses his study of the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through fourteen chapters that each cover one period in the composer’s life, the longest including the first six years, and several of the shorter chapters covering one year only. In Mozart, Komroff describes the environment into which the composer was born and, in the process, provides genealogical data concerning Leopold Mozart, the father of the young genius, that gives the young reader some idea of the family background from which Mozart emerged. The description of these...
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