Volume 29, Number 18 · November 18, 1982
Amadevious
By Alan Tyson
Mozart
by Wolfgang Hildesheimer, translated by Marion Faber
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 408 pp., $22.50
Mozart is devoted to the elucidation of an enigma and is itself somewhat enigmatic in its initial presentation. For it is not formally announced as a biography of Mozart, and no subtitle serves to define or clarify its scope. Nor is it divided into chapters that might indicate the path to be traversed. Even the dust jacket strikes a mysterious note. It depicts a serene Mozart at the keyboard, apparently playing a piece in E flat by 'M. Sendak' (who drew the picture), and watched by a Papageno figure. Mozart's face, though relaxed, is as inscrutable as the Mona Lisa's.
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