Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Volkmar Braunbehrens
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Historical biography
- Time of Work: 1781-1791
- Setting: Vienna
- Principal Characters: Wolfgang Amade Mozart, Constanze Weber Mozart, Leopold Mozart, Joseph II, Leopold II, Count Hieronymus Colloredo, Emanuel Schikaneder, Lorenzo da Ponte, Michael Puchberg
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Music or musicians, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Composers, Austria or Austrians, Courts or courtrooms, Opera, operas, or operettas
- Locales: Vienna, Austria
Great figures attract myths. Every child knows the story of George Washington and the cherry tree. Mention Edgar Allan Poe, and people at once envision a slightly mad drunk and drug addict. Thanks to Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Adonais (1821), Keats has been seen as a pale, sensitive youth too frail to survive a bad book review. One would have to go far, however, to find anyone whose life has been more distorted than Mozart’s. Everyone knows the story. Ignored by an obtuse Austrian court and an indifferent public, he struggled with poverty throughout his decade in Vienna. His wife,...
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