Giddy sugarplum or calculating bitch? Pretty Konstanze aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-law's loathed her. Mozart's friends, more than forty years after his death remained eager to gossip about her "failures" as wife to the world's first superstar. Maturing from child to wife to hard-headed widow, Konstanze would pay Mozart's debts, provide for their children and relentlessly market and mythologize her brilliant husband. Mozart's letters attest to his affection for … [Read more...] about Intimate Mozart by Juliet Waldron
My Mozart By Juliet Waldron
This book is bargain priced from 05/16/2014 until 05/22/2014 Mozart was her teacher, her mentor, her rescuer--and, finally, fatally, her lover. .. At dawn, in the marble palace of a Prince, a nine-year-old sings for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, then at the peak of his career. Always delighted by musical children, he accepts Nanina as a pupil. Gifted, intense and imaginative, she sees the great "Kapellmeister Mozart” as an avatar of Orpheus and her own, personal divinity. His lessons are … [Read more...] about My Mozart By Juliet Waldron
