Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music - Softcover

Glover, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330418580 ISBN 13: 9780330418584

Publisher: Pan Macmillan, 2006

Synopsis

Told through the prism of the women in Mozart's life, this biography focuses initially on his precocious childhood and relationship with his mother, sister and the Weber sisters, one of whom became his wife, and finally concluding with his premature death and the fate of the women who shaped his life.

About this title

About the Author:

In Jane Glover's long and hugely successful career as a conductor, she has been Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Artistic Director of The London Mozart Players, and has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain. She appears regularly at the BBC Proms and is a regular broadcaster, with highlights including a television series on Mozart. She lives in London.

Review:

‘Jane Glover’s elegant and fascinating book illuminates an aspect of Mozart, and of his work, that has often been touched on but never with such detail and insight. Her vivid portraits enable us appreciate how deeply the remarkable women in his life served as both emotional and artistic muses, and how their spirit informs his masterworks . Glover has lived Mozart’s music intimately, and her knowledge of it and love for it make her a privileged guide to its endless riches, and to how originally and brilliantly Mozart uses it to create some of the most memorable female characters in all of opera.’ Renée Fleming

‘Jane Glover has produced a winner, showing us Mozart from a fresh and fascinating viewpoint: the women in his life. Constanze, for instance, emerges a different creature from the way she is usually portrayed, tempting the reader to revise judgement on her. Written in a delightful, accessible style, this is a book that anyone with an interest in Mozart should have. For the singer it is an indispensable treasure trove of information – altogether, hugely enjoyable’

Dame Janet Baker

‘Nowadays it seems that Mozart’s genius had always existed, fully formed, from the first. But genius does not flourish in isolation. It is Jane Glover’s great gift to show how the women surrounding Mozart – his sister Nannerl, his wife Constanze, and her three talented sisters – all influenced him, making their own contributions to the creation of the most fascinating, dazzling, and complex women on the opera stage’

Judith Flanders, author of Circle of Sisters and The Victorian House

‘Beautifully written and scholarly without seeming so’

Dame Felicity Lott

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0330418580
• ISBN 13: 9780330418584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 406