Mozart and his times
Erich Schenk, Richard Winston (Translator), Clara Winston (Translator)
This incomparable chronicle is not a musicological study. Indirectly, however, it comments on the transitions of musical style and manner, putting them into understandable context with the social trends of the period, with its political philosophies and shifting religious attitudes. The book includes revealing biographical sketches of the men and women whom Mozart knew, as well as intimate views of the cities and towns in which he lived and labored. Much that has always been unclear is here clarified; much that has always been no more than legend is here swept away. The author has documented his rich-textured book from correspondence--between Mozart and his librettists and patrons, his wife, and people he hoped would lend him a few ducats. Mozart's stays and visits as a boy and a young man in Salzburg, Vienna, Mannheim, the Italian courts, Prague, Paris, and London are enriched by many quotations from contemporary accounts
Print Book, English, 1959
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959