Overview
On Mozart is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would have us believe. He was certainly a genius--in that, the legends are correct, and the evidence abounds--but he was also a working composer in a society crowded with other working composers, and he had to make a living at his craft to maintain the style of living to which he and his family had become accustomed. By observing a realistic and human genius, the collection of essays portrays a more complex individual than the divinely inspired Mozart of myth, who took his notes directly from God.
- | Author: James M. Morris
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 25, 1994
- | Number of Pages: 264 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521476615
- | ISBN-13: 9780521476614
