Mozart

This major work the result of years of careful study and analysis places Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual political and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. The result is a fresh interpretation of Mozart's genius as Robert Gutman shows the great composer in a new light. With an informed and sensitive handling Mozart emerges as an affectionate and generous man with family and friends self-deprecating witty and winsome but also an austere moralist incisive and purposeful. The major genres in which Mozart worked-chamber music liturgical theater and keyboard compositions concertos operas symphonies and oratorios-are unfolded to reveal a man of luminous intellect. Mozart is an extraordinary portrait of a man and his times and a brilliant distillation of musical thought.<br>