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Article: Mozart: A Life.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 22, 1995
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MOZART: A LIFE. By Maynard Solomon. Hutchinson; 640 pages; Pounds 25. HarperCollins; $35
OF MOZART biographies there would seem to be no end. He fascinates by the inhuman perfection of his music and, despite a mountain of biographical fact, by something elusive in his life. From Mozart's earliest years when his father trotted him about Europe as a child prodigy, people spoke of him as a little god. His early death at 35 soon became the stuff of sentimental legend, picked out by the story of a black-clad stranger who commissioned a requiem Mozart took to be his own and by his burial in a pauper's grave.
Each era produces Mozart biographers who fit him to their ...