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Mozart in Paris, Paperback / softback Book

Mozart in Paris Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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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