Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authority all shine out from these letters.--Sunday Times (London). In Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life, Robert Spaethling presents Mozart in all the rawness of his driving energies (Spectator), preserved in...
What was Mozart really like wild? sublime? responsible? fun-loving? bright? foul-mouthed? Reading these letters, 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,...