• ISBN13: 9780521476614
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Music, Theatre & Films
• Publisher: Cambridge UP
• Publisher Imprint: Cambridge
• Publication Date: December 16, 1997
• Pages: 264
• Original Price: 37.99 GBP
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 363 grams

About the Book On Mozart is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would have us believe. He was certainly a genius--in that, the legends are correct, and the evidence abounds--but he was also a working composer in a society crowded with other working composers, and he had to make a living at his craft to maintain the style of living to which he and his family had become accustomed. By observing a realistic and human genius, the collection of essays portrays a more complex individual than the divinely inspired Mozart of myth, who took his notes directly from God.