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Mozart

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Mozart

Written by: Paul Johnson
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
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Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart's gift and skill with instruments was also remarkable as he mastered all of them except the harp. For example, no sooner had the clarinet been invented and introduced than Mozart began playing and composing for it. In addition to his many insights into Mozart's music, Johnson also challenges the many myths that have followed Mozart, including those about the composer's health, wealth, religion, and relationships. Always engaging, Johnson offers listeners and music lovers a superb examination of Mozart and his glorious music, which is still performed every day in concert halls and opera houses around the world.

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I enjoy biographies of people I deem fascinating. I just finished one about Beethoven so I wanted to learn about Mozart. This was not it. I am mad I paid for this. This book is marred with music terms and descriptions that if you are not a musician you may not understand. I didn't!. So keeping that in mind, this biography is dull and uninteresting.

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