Boyhood of Mozart, as child prodigy at the various royal courts of Europe. Before he died at the age of thirty-six he had left the world a great heritage of mus

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From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus M

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Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his music As he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaime