Article: Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music

Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends. His Music by jane Glover HarperCollins Publishers, 406pp. $27.95

Reading about Mozart's life can be depressing - the child prodigy with the impossible-to-please father, the supremely gifted composer without a steady income, the dedicated artist who dies at the age of thirty-five while dictating his Requiem from his deathbed. Whatever Mozart's woes, Jane Glover reminds us in Mozart's Women that the music and its making were always sublime. This lavish volume (complete with two glossy eight-page inserts of well-researched portraits) is just the fix for those who find themselves getting sentimental at the 250-year anniversary of Mozart's birth.

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