Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791 by Christoph Wolff

Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791

Christoph Wolff

272 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history music informative reflective medium-paced
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"I now stand at the gateway to my fortune," Mozart wrote in a letter of 1790. He had entered into the service of Emperor Joseph II of Austria two years earlier as Imperial-Royal Chamber Composer—a salaried appointment with a distinguished title an...

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