Mozart the golden Review ofMozart: The Golden Years 1781-1791 - H. C. Robbins Landonby
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Advantages: Effortlessly knowledgable and unfailingly entertaining. Disadvantages: Landon is a prolific writer, so if you get hooked the addiction could be seriously expensive.
In the final month of 1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the greatest star in the story of Western music blinked out, amidst a storm of controversy and speculation. It was this intrigue, which has sparked debate ever since, especially following the impact of the play and film of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. So was it really Salieri in the drawing room with the poison? Eminent musicologist H.C.Robbins Landon thinks not. His gripping ‘1791: Mozart’s ... ...prodigiously gifted, drunken buffoon and casts doubt on the rumours which circulated after Mozart’s death that he was poisoned by his rival, Antonio Salieri.
Landon is one of the most prominent scholars in the field of 18th Century music. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1926, in 1949 he founded the Haydn Society, which set out to issue the Collected Edition of Haydn’s music and also make a number of recordings. More recently he participated ...
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