{"product_id":"wolfgang-amadeus-mozart-a-biography","title":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003ePiero Melograni here offers a wholly readable account of Mozarts remarkable life and times. This masterful biography proceeds from the young Mozarts earliest years as a wunderkindthe child prodigy who traveled with his family to perform concerts throughout Europeto his formative years in Vienna  where he fully absorbed the artistic and intellectual spirit of the Enlightenment  to his deathbed  his unfinished Requiem  and the mystery that still surrounds his burial. Melogranis deft use of Mozarts letters throughout confers authority and vitality to his recounting  and his expertise brings Mozarts eighteenth-century milieu evocatively to life. Written with a gifted historians flair for narrative and unencumbered by specialized analyses of Mozarts music  Melogranis is the most vivid and enjoyable biography of Mozart available. Italian historian Piero Melograni delivers a charming biography. Expertly grounded by the massive correspondence between Mozart and his highly complex family  Melogranis study benefits from its authors keen understanding of the changing social environments of the late eighteenth century.Todd B. Sollis  Opera News The idea that Mozarts achievements had nothing to do with self-discipline  hard work  knowledge or intellect is deeply embedded in the popular image of his genius  but Melograni . . . will have none of it  pointing out how hard Mozart worked on his music  even as a child  and suggesting that the eternal child view was put about by . . . family members to emphasize Wolfgangs need for and dependence on them.Sheila Fitzpatrick  London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953501532213,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226519619","price":27.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226519616.jpg?v=1770393547","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart-a-biography","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}