Mozart in Paris
Author(s): Frantz Duchazeau
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."
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Metro Media Limited
- : SelfMadeHero
- : 0.3
- : 01 September 2019
- : ---length:- '26'width:- '19'units:- Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Frantz Duchazeau
- : Frantz Duchazeau
- : Paperback
- : Paperback
- : 1912
- : 1912
- : English
- : English
- : 741.5
- : 741.5
- : 96
- : 96