The Life of Mozart

Wisconsin Bookwatch, March, 2005

The Life Of Mozart

Edward Holmes

Tantor Media

114 East Mill Rock Road, Old Saybrook, CT 06475

1400100984 $39.99 www.tantor.com

Edward Holmes (a schoolfellow and contemporary of John Keats) wrote and published the first complete account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, basing his biography upon Mozart's own letters and personally written memoirs. The Life Of Mozart was written long before the significance of Mozart's work and impact upon European classical music was fully realized. As a biographer, Edward Holmes managed to nonetheless reveal that unique composer and performer's character and genius, his personal and professional struggles, his influence on music beginning as a child prodigy and continuing through his accomplishments as a young and often troubled man whose life was to prove all too brief. Expertly narrated by David Case and strongly recommended for academic and community library audiobook collections, this Tantor Media audiobook edition is complete and unabridged on 10 CDs offering a total running time of 11 hours, 45 minutes.