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Article: A homage to Mozart for musically literate
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 15, 1991
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On Mozart By Anthony Burgess.
Ticknor & Fields. $19.95.
Anthony Burgess, the prolific Briton whose literary output
ranges from A Clockwork Orange to The Novel Now: A Student's Guide to
Contemporary Fiction, has written a highly personalized response to
the Mozart Bicentennial.
Burgess describes On Mozart aptly on the title page: "On Mozart,
a Paean for Wolfgang. Being a celestial colloquy, an opera libretto,
a film script, a schizophrenic dialogue, a bewildered rumination, a
Stendhalian transcription, and heartfelt homage upon the bicentenary
of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart."
The author delivers what he promises in witty, insightful poetry
and prose, though on first reading ...