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Mozart's women : his family, his friends, his music

Av:

Glover, Jane

Utgivning: Macmillan, 2005ISBN:

1-4050-8825-7.

Ämne:

Mozart, Family

Sammanfattning: A new biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told through the prism of the women in his life. Mozart's remarkably precocious childhood is refracted through the lives of his mother Maria Anna and equally talented sister Nannerl.Then there are the Webers: Constanze, his wife, much maligned by history, and her sisters Aloysia, Sophie and Josepha. But this is also the story of the women in his operas, all of whom were restrained by the conventions and strictures of eighteenth-century society.

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A new biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told through the prism of the women in his life. Mozart's remarkably precocious childhood is refracted through the lives of his mother Maria Anna and equally talented sister Nannerl.Then there are the Webers: Constanze, his wife, much maligned by history, and her sisters Aloysia, Sophie and Josepha. But this is also the story of the women in his operas, all of whom were restrained by the conventions and strictures of eighteenth-century society.