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The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01

By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

Step back in time through personal letters that expose the intimate thoughts and life of a musical genius as he grapples with artistry, ambition, and everyday life.

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2004-03-01
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"The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a compilation of personal letters from the late 1700s, offering a window into the composer's world. Spanning from 1769 to 1791, the letters reveal his reflections on music, his personal life, and the world around him. The collection forms an intimate view and showcases both his brilliance and the challenges he navigated as an artist and individual. Early on, the correspondence highlights Mozart's childhood and family relationships—especially his bond with his father and sister. The beginning focuses on childhood and his father's aspirations for him. It also shows a young Mozart traveling to different places, excited to share his experiences with art and music, and revealing a playful side in his writing. His descriptions of people, places, and even his own musical creations create a lively story, capturing his personality and growing talent to prepare the reader for his later letters in the collection.

About the Author

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture".

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