Seventeen Ninety-One: Mozart's Last Year
H. C. Robbins Landon. Scribner Book Company, $13.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-02-871315-1
`` Amadeus , the play and film, popularized the many legends about Mozart's `decline and fall.' In this factual account of the composer's last year, musicologist Landon gathers authentic contemporary documents to `bring us nearer to Mozart and his wife, Constanze, than does fiction, even at its most inspired,' '' reported PW. Illustrated. (June)
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Reviewed on: 06/05/1990
Genre: Nonfiction