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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A vivid new biography, toppling the many myths surrounding Mozart, which will undoubtedly be the standard biography for years to come.

Paperback / softback. New. From acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From his earliest years it was apparent that the singular imagination of Wolfgang Mozart was tirelessly at work. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical, going at every part of his life with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all things pleasurable and fun. As a man, Mozart was an inexplicable force of nature who could rise from a luminous improvisation at the keyboard to meow like a cat and leap over the furniture. He was forever drumming on things, tapping his feet, seeming both present and apart. But he also might grasp your hand and gaze at you with a profound, searching and melancholy look in his blue eyes. It was as if… Read More

Faber & Faber, 2021. Paperback. New. main edition. 832 pages. 9.21x6.02x1.89 inches.