| Abstract |
"This book will serve the public as an introduction and guide to the world and life of Mozart. The author has followed the 1860 translation, while altering what seems to be obvious errors. But readers will also note how often he has taken flight away from what Mozart wrote into oratio obliqua, in the sort of expansion as when he prefers to write Michael Haydn where Mozart wrote Haydn, so as to avoid footnotes, and when has left out proper names. Hence his dramatis personae at the beginning of each letter section. What is offered here is an edited sample of Mozart. While the editing is intended to make the matter smooth, readable and understandable, we do not think it is misleading. The book has tried to show the man whole, as child, as youth and as a man, as a musician, as a financier (and what a sour laugh here), as a lover, as a flirt, as a friend and as an intriguer. When you have read this book you will really know the human Mozart."--Publisher's description. |
