Volume 47, Number 5 · March 23, 2000
The Miracle Worker
By Joseph Kerman
Mozart
by Peter Gay
Lipper/Viking, 177 pp., $19.95
The Life of Mozart
by John Rosselli
Cambridge University Press, 171 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Mozart in Revolt: Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception
by David Schroeder
Yale University Press, 211 pp., $25.00
Mozart: A Cultural Biography
by Robert W. Gutman
Harcourt Brace, 839 pp., $40.00
Peter Gay's Penguin Life of Mozart tells the story with grace and organizes it with dexterity. It is not pitched at a very high level, and the author has not found anything very distinctive to say about his subject. Gay is a distinguished historian of the Enlightenment, but his remarks on social or intellectual forces that might illuminate the life and works of Mozart are familiar and strike no sparks.
Review, 4069 words
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