Mozart : A Life

by Solomon, Maynard

• ISBN13: 9780060926922
• ISBN10: 0060926929
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-05
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

In this first full-scale biography since the 1950s, esteemed biographer Maynard Solomon draws on a half-century of new information to provide an in-depth account of Mozart's family life, his passions, and his personality.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Table of Money Values	xi
A Note on Kochel Numbers	xii
Introduction	xiii
Prologue The Myth of the Eternal Child	3	(18)
BEGINNINGS
Leopold Mozart	21	(14)
Early Days	35	(8)
The Grand Journey	43	(12)
The Family Treasure	55	(12)
A Vienna Sojourn	67	(10)
The Italian Journeys	77	(20)
SALZBURG
The Favorite Son	97	(18)
A Composer's Voice	115	(22)
A Fool's Errand	137	(24)
Mozart in Love	161	(16)
A Mother's Death	177	(10)
Trouble in Paradise	187	(24)
Parallel Lives	211	(10)
Farewell to Salzburg	221	(20)
VIENNA
Arrival	241	(12)
Constanze	253	(10)
Two Families	263	(14)
Adam	277	(8)
The Impresario	285	(22)
Portrait of a Composer	307	(14)
Freemasonry	321	(16)
The Zoroastran Riddles	337	(16)
The Carnivalesque Dimension	353	(10)
Fearful Symmetries	363	(24)
ENDINGS
Little Leopold	387	(12)
``Carissima sorella mia''	399	(18)
Prague and Beyond	417	(20)
The Journey to Berlin	437	(18)
A ``Constant Sadness''	455	(18)
The Last Year	473	(10)
The Final Journey	483	(22)
The Power of Music	505	(16)
Appendix: Mozart's Vienna Earnings	521	(8)
Abbreviations	529	(2)
Notes	531	(62)
Selected Bibliography	593	(18)
List of Illustrations	611	(3)
Index of Compositions	614	(11)
Classified List of Compositions, with Kochel Numbers	614	(1)
Operas and Other Stage Works, Listed Alphabetically	615	(1)
Other Titled and Nickname Works, Listed Alphabetically	615	(1)
Index of Compositions, Listed by Kochel Number	616	(9)
General Index	625