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| Contents |
Birth and parentage -- The prodigy children -- Mozart's development as a child -- Salzburg and Vienna -- First operas and other compositions -- The first Italian tour -- Salzburg and Italy -- Four years at home -- Father and son -- The last grand tour begins -- Mannheim -- Paris -- Munich and Salzburg -- Manhood and marriage in Vienna -- Brief and incomplete success -- Last years -- The genius of Mozart -- The comic and tragic in Mozart's operas -- Kierkegaard on Mozart and music -- Music and dialectic -- Appendices. Of what disease did Mozart die? |
| Abstract |
Biography based almost entirely upon the correspondence of the Mozart family, some of which was never translated before its publication. |
| General note | First American edition. |
| General note | Includes catalogue of works (pages 431-455) and bibliography (pages 456-458). |
| LCCN | 38027758 |
