Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life
Robert Spaethling
W. W. Norton & Company
<p>"A wonderful collection that gives Mozart a voice as a son, husband, brother and friend." &#8212;<i>New York Times Book Review</i>"Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authority all shine out from these letters."&#8212;<i>Sunday Times</i> (London). " In <i>Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life</i>, Robert Spaethling presents "Mozart in all the rawness of his driving energies" (<i>Spectator</i>), preserved in the "zany, often angry effervescence" of his writing (<i>Observer</i>). Where other translators have ignored Mozart's atrocious spelling and tempered his foul language, "Robert Spaethling's new translations are lively and racy, and do justice to Mozart's restlessly inventive mind" (<i>Daily Mail</i>). Carefully selected and meticulously annotated, this collection of letters "should be on the shelves of every music lover" (<i>BBC Music Magazine</i>).