Mozart in Paris Paperback / softback
by Frantz Duchazeau
Paperback / softback
Description
In 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart leaves Salzburg for Paris.
The French capital promises to liberate the 22-year-old from the suffocating grip of his father, and from a city that is unable to accommodate his genius.
But there is no grand entrance for the former child prodigy.
When Mozart arrives in Paris, he is cash-strapped, unknown and his French is poor.
His mentor, the critic Baron von Grimm, introduces him to a number of Parisian nobles.
But recognition is hard-won, and at times the French court appears indifferent to Mozart's talents and disapproving of his spontaneity.
Tracing the composer’s six-month stay in the city of lights, Mozart in Paris dramatizes the confrontation between a sparkle-eyed genius and mundane reality.
Frantz Duchazeau spotlights a frustrating yet formative period of the composer’s life — and in doing so creates a living, breathing portrait of a man whose music, as Einstein famously said, “was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.”
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:SelfMadeHero
- Publication Date:26/09/2019
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- ISBN:9781910593721
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:SelfMadeHero
- Publication Date:26/09/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781910593721