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2) Mozart
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Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this biography recreates Mozart, the man and his music, against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and writing of Mozart was truly a labor of love, during which she retraced every journey he made, saw every dwelling (then extant) in which he had ever lived, every theatre where his works were first performed, and every library and museum where his manuscripts...
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"At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart's singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious. He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends...
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 13
Pub. Date
[2009]
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First edition.
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English
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Jack and Annie travel to Vienna, Austria, in 1762 where they meet the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister and help save the budding genius' life.
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English
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What was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart really like? Readers of his letters will find a composer at his most intimate and unguarded, expressing his feelings about life, love, music, and the world around him. This collection of 140 letters spans Mozart's life from his youth through his journeys through Paris. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart make wonderful reading for anyone who has ever loved a work by the composer, from the deceptively simple "Eine...
9) Don Giovanni
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English National Opera guide volume 18
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English
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Perhaps the greatest opera ever written, Don Giovanni is presented here in the C. F. Peters edition, that contains everything from the original version, along with later arias, recitatives, and duets added for the Vienna performance. Text in both Italian and German.
10) Mozart tonight
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[1991]
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English
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On the eve of his great operatic triumph "Don Giovanni, " Mozart looks back on the events of his life that led to this moment.
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A music historian uncovers Nazi Germany’s use of Mozart as a WWII propaganda tool in this “intriguing study [that] comprehends a range of vital topics” (Choice).
As the Nazi war machine expanded its bloody ambitions across Europe, the Third Reich sought to promote a sophisticated and even humanitarian image of German culture through the tireless promotion of Mozart’s music. In this revelatory
13) Amadeus
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[1997]
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English
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Adapted from Shaffer's play, the film presents the life of Antonio Salieri, a mediocre 18th century Viennese composer obsessed with and jealous of the musical genius of the age: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
14) Mozart
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Focuses on the childhood and early musical training of the versatile eighteenth-century Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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"Lady Sophia Huntington Villiers is no stranger to intrigue, as her work with Alan Turing's Bombe Machines at Bletchley Park during the war attests. Her wartime marriage of convenience to Simon Barre, the eighth earl of Camden, granted her the independence she craved and saved his estate. Now, as part of his covert team in postwar Vienna, she uses her charm to uncover a lethal double agent immersed in the world of relics-including the long lost death...
17) Young Mozart
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"Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lives only for music--and he already knows how to appreciate it in all its forms, even the most unexpected. The young virtuoso is looking for--and finding!-- inspiration wherever it hides, even in the cries of Nannerl, his sister, or the poop of his dog. He takes lessons from the birds, crickets and frogs, intertwining every note into his great masterpieces. Based on real events in Mozart's childhood this is a charming...
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A centuries-old mystery. An "accidental" death. A conspiracy that may end in murder. Former British Special Air Service officer Ben Hope is running for his life. Enlisted by Leigh Llewellyn – the beautiful, world-famous opera star and Ben's first love – to investigate her brother, Oliver's, mysterious death, Ben finds himself caught up in a puzzle dating back to the 1700s. At the time of his death, Oliver was working on a new book about Mozart....
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"An erotic, comedic, and compulsively readable historical novel depicting the beguiling Giacomo Casanova as he looks back on a life of love and ribald adventure In Count Waldstein's far-flung Bohemian castle, an aging Casanova spends his days as a librarian cataloging the count's extensive collection of books. Or at least that's what he's supposed to be doing. Ever the storyteller, Casanova instead dedicates himself to his own writing, for which the...
20) Mozart's Sister
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2015.
Language
Français
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Mozart's Sister is a re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Once the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French Revolution Europe. Approaching marriageable age and now forbidden to play the violin or...
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