Mozart

On the occasion of Mozart's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, read Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life, universally hailed as the Mozart biography of our time.

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 Nicknamed Works, Listed Alphabetically

615

(1)

Index of Compositions, Listed by Kochel Number

616

(9)

General Index

625

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