Mozart's Wife

I downloaded "Mozart's Wife", because it was a work of historical fiction (which I enjoy), and because in my years of singing, my operatic repertoire has become particularly Mozart-heavy. Mozart loved his coloraturas, and wasn't afraid to write very difficult pieces for them. Of course, I know a gre......more

Most readers (myself included) know little more about Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart than they might have seen in the movie Amadeus, where what few insights were portrayed were notoriously inaccurate (being based on a work of fiction in the first place). Even if one loves Mozart's music, as so many d......more

Waldron writes compelling historical fiction, bringing alive Mozart's marriage and the personality of his wife in a way that was very believable. This novel really gets at the core of what it is like to be married to a "wunderkind" and, unlike most modern historical novels, it does a very good job o......more

"Mozart's Wife" is one of the earliest ebooks, written specifically for Kindle, that I ever downloaded. I thought it was high time I read it. I shouldn't have finished it, as it was quite a slog, and the author took some liberties w historical accuracy, although she hit all the high points correctly......more