Mozart (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Maynard Solomon
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1756-1791
- Setting: Salzburg and Vienna, Austria; Paris, France; Rome and Milan, Italy; Prague, Bohemia
- Principal Characters: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart, Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart von Berchtold zu Sonnenberg, Constanze Weber Mozart
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Parents and children, Music or musicians, Fathers, Composers, Orchestras or orchestral music, Opera, operas, or operettas
- Locales: Paris, France, Vienna, Austria, Rome, Italy, Milan, Italy, Salzburg, Austria, Bohemia, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Like the great composer himself, Maynard Solomon’s Mozart: A Life may be said to suffer from an identity crisis. From one chapter to the next, this massive biography shifts from being a psychological profile of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s relationship with his father to a theoretical analysis of the composer’s musical style to a catalog listing each of his works to a polemic addressing discrete issues in Mozart’s life. Because of its lack of focus, readers of the book are unlikely to gain a clear picture of Mozart either as a musician or as a human being. They will likely...
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