{"product_id":"mozart-the-reign-of-love","title":"Mozart : The Reign of Love","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozarts singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all things pleasurable and fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMozart was known to be an inexplicable force of nature who could rise from a luminous improvisation at the keyboard to a leap over the furniture. He was forever drumming on things, tapping his feet, jabbering away, but who could grasp your hand and look at you with a profound, searching, and melancholy look in his blue eyes.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Even in company there was often an air about Mozart of being not quite there. It was as if he lived onstage and off simultaneously, a character in lifes tragicomedy but also outside of it watching, studying, gathering material for the fabric of his art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike Jan Swaffords biographies \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeethoven \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJohannes Brahms, Mozart\u003c\/em\u003e is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: a man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, its nearly impossible to understand classical musics origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e Published: US, 2020\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e Pages: 832\u003cbr\u003e Language: English\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9780062433572\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 0062433571\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jan Swafford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43907677585674,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9780062433572.jpg?v=1670171350","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/mozart-the-reign-of-love","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}