Mozart A Musical Biography

BL Draws on the major advances in Mozart research over the last 30 years Although there are many accounts of Mozart's life, and countless descriptions and analyses of his music, this is the first attempt to portray Mozart's creative life as a composer. Kuster selects forty works or groups of works covering virtually every important stage in Mozart's career, from thefirst keyboard works of the young Wunderkind to Mozart's final days and the composition of the Requiem. The bulk of the book is concerned with Mozart's life and compositions from his arrival in Vienna in 1781 to his death there some ten years later. Kuster's interpretation of Mozart's musical personality is enriched by textual and musical quotations drawn from Mozart's letters and other documentary material, plus the publication of the new Mozart Edition.

Konrad Kuster is Lecturer in Musicology at Freiburg University, Germany.