Article: The many muses of Amadeus; Is the key to Mozart's splendidly drawn female characters to be found in his life story?(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)

Byline: Susan Miron

The year 2006, the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of Mozart's birth, has unsurprisingly yielded a plethora of new Mozart biographies. Yet as far as I know, no one besides the British conductor Jane Glover has devoted an entire book to the women, "who inspired, fascinated, supported, amused, aroused and sometimes hurt Mozart throughout his life."

In Mozart's Women, Glover argues that since Mozart created some of the most "vividly drawn and brilliantly understood" women ever to grace the opera stage, all of his female family members and acquaintances bear closer scrutiny. Glover is a tremendously enthused author, whose love of ...

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