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Mozart
A Penguin Life
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Peter Gay - Author
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Book: Hardcover | 5.47 x 7.87in | 160 pages | ISBN 9780670882380 | 01 Jun 1999 | Viking Adult | Adult
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Mozart
Mozart's unshakable hold on the public's fascination can only be strengthened by the historian and biographer Peter Gay's bold, new perspective. His passionate and painstaking research reveals truths more fascinating than the myths that have long shrouded the maestro's life. Here is the archetypal child prodigy whose genius triumphed over early precociousness, and who later broke away from a loving but tyrannical father to pursue his vision unhampered. Peter Gay's Mozart traces the legendary development of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievement, and the composer who pushed every instrument to its limit and every genre—especially opera—into new realms. More than an engrossing biography, this is a meditation on the nature of genius and, for any music lover, a trove of new critical insights. Mozart One: The Prodigy

Two: The Son

Three: The Servant

Four: The Freelance

Five: The Beggar

Six: The Master

Seven: The Dramatist

Eight: The Classic

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