Mozart: A Life

By: Peter Gay

Published August 29th 2006 by Penguin (first published 1999)

Category: Biography

Pages: 177 pages

ISBN: 9780143037736

Description:
A biography of the greatest musical mind in Western history.

Mozart's unshakable hold on the public's consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's concise and deft look at the genius's life.

'Mozart' traces the development of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievement, and the composer who pushed every instrument to its limit and every genre of classical music into new realms.