Volume 53, Number 9 · May 25, 2006
Mozart at 250
By Charles Rosen
Mozart
by Julian Rushton
Oxford University Press, 306 pp., $30.00
Mozart and His Operas
by David Cairns
University of California Press, 290 pp., $29.95
The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart
by Nicholas Kenyon
Faber and Faber, 384 pp., £8.99 (paper)
The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
edited by Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe
Cambridge University Press, 662 pp., $175.00
More than any other famous composer, Mozart arouses not just admiration but envy. Brahms once called him the greatest disaster that can happen to another composer. Debussy, in his combat against the mainstream Teutonic tradition, said that it was a pity that Mozart wasn't French, because he would be worth imitating.
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