A superb examination of Mozart and his glorious music by eminent historian Paul Johnson.

Briefly recounts the life of a composer who wrote beautiful sonatas and symphonies despite tragic personal problems.

A biography of the composer provides details on his childhood, career, and personal achievements.

Describes the life of the eighteenth-century Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical prodigy who learned to write music before he could write letters and grew up to become Imperial Court Composer to Emperor Joseph.

Introduces the early life of the Austrian composer, offers a brief guide to listening to his works in different musical forms, and suggests related activities.

"This picture book biography chronicles the lifelong friendship that began in adolescence between Ludwig van Beethoven and master piano maker Nannette Streicher emphasizing her support for him and his work and his influence on the many innovations she made to piano construction"--

An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers "In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this interpretative...