Mozart in Paris
Author | : Frantz Duchazeau |
Publisher | : SelfMadeHero |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 1910593729 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781910593721 |
Rating | : 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Download or read book Mozart in Paris written by Frantz Duchazeau and published by SelfMadeHero. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart leaves Salzburg for Paris. The French capital promises to liberate the 22-year-old from the suffocating grip of his father, and from a city that is unable to accommodate his genius. But there is no grand entrance for the former child prodigy. When Mozart arrives in Paris, he is cash-strapped, unknown and his French is poor. His mentor, the critic Baron von Grimm, introduces him to a number of Parisian nobles. But recognition is hard-won, and at times the French court appears indifferent to Mozart's talents and disapproving of his spontaneity. Tracing the composer's six-month stay in the city of lights, Mozart in Paris dramatizes the confrontation between a sparkle-eyed genius and mundane reality. Frantz Duchazeau spotlights a frustrating yet formative period of the composer's life - and in doing so creates a living, breathing portrait of a man whose music, as Einstein famously said, 'was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.'"--Bookdepository.com