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About Peter Gay
See more books from this AuthorIn the new Penguin Lives series, edited by former New York Times editor James Atlas, Gay's Mozart biography comes with particularly high expectations, given the author's distinction as a historian (he
May 31 1999 | Read Full Review of Mozart: A Penguin Life (Pengu...NEW YORK — "La Clemenza di Tito," written just months before Mozart's death in 1791, is a curiosity among his operas, a throwback to an archaic style he had moved beyond.
Nov 18 2012 | Read Full Review of Mozart: A Penguin Life (Pengu...Mozart the letter-writer, like Mozart the composer of virtually every form and species of music, is the supreme non-bore.
| Read Full Review of Mozart: A Penguin Life (Pengu...Perhaps the avowedly Freudian slant of Brigid Brophy in Mozart the Dramatist, and the authorship of another of the books by a well-known editor of Freud, Alan Tyson – although it does not contain a single mention of Freud – are thought sufficient grounds for his selection as reviewer.
Jul 07 1988 | Read Full Review of Mozart: A Penguin Life (Pengu...This needs to be faced up to in any Mozart biography, and indeed there is a book, The Mozart Myths, by William Stafford, in which biographers are assessed and categorized according to their treatment of this very matter.1 David Schroeder will have none of it;
Mar 23 2000 | Read Full Review of Mozart: A Penguin Life (Pengu...The film's dogged repetitions regarding Nannerl's real-life raw deal dilute the reparative nature of the story after a while, and not even the movie's grainy, retro--art-cinema look can keep viewers from gradually tuning out.
| Read Full Review of Mozart: A Penguin Life (Pengu...An aggregated and normalized score based on 44 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes