![]() ![]() Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.That said, Peter Gay is Peter Gay and I respect his scholarship immensely." The chronological jumping around just doesn't do it for me with biographies. And I wasn't crazy about the book's organization either, which was more topical than chronological. I couldn't help but feel that this work could of had a simpler tone. "I had read a bit of Peter Gay's work in the past (his shorter biography of Freud) and never noticed his writing, which is, in most cases, a compliment. “ stunning portrait of the disparate sides of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.”- New York Times Book Review This is the perfect biography for anyone who has ever wanted to know about Mozart but does not want to dig through massive tomes. Here is the archetypal child prodigy whose genius triumphed over early precociousness and who later broke away from a loving but tyrannical father to pursue his vision unhampered. ![]() His passionate and painstaking research reveals truths more fascinating than the myths that have long shrouded the maestro’s life. ![]() The composer’s unshakable hold on the public’s fascination can only be strengthened by the historian and biographer Peter Gay’s bold new perspective. The greatest mind in Western music is examined by a National Book Award–winning writer on culture and psychology in this concise account of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ![]()
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