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Mozart
A Life
Author: Paul Johnson
Narrator: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Unabridged: 5 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Published: 11/14/2013
Category: Music - Individual Composer & Musician
Synopsis
As he' s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson' s focus is on the music-- Mozart' s wondrous output of composition and his uncanny gift for instrumentation. Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart' s gift and skill with instruments was also remarkable as he mastered all of them except the harp. For example, no sooner had the clarinet been invented and introduced than Mozart began playing and composing for it.