Mozart
His Life, His Death, and His Music for All Mankind

This book took me the better part of 40 years to read because I knew enough about Mozart to know he died in poverty at the age of 35. And while I also knew that he was performing before kings, queens, and emperors by the age of 6, knowing that he was buried in a pauper's grave led me to believe his......more

While I really enjoyed this book, I have a sneaking suspicion that it played fast and loose with Mozart's life. The writer, in an effort, I suppose, to make it more true-to-life and perhaps more enjoyable reading, wrote this in kind of a novel-ish way, embellishing all kinds of situations with chara......more

Wow. What an incredible book. I could begin rereading immediately! that she wrote this in 1932 and was a person familiar with Europe, the languages, the places of Mozart's life, makes it even better. This book should be required reading for every student of Music. It is all-encompassing and leaves t......more

I recently re-watched the film "Amadeus," one of my favorites which I hadn't seen in over a decade, and immediately wanted to read an "authentic" biography of Wolfgang Amade Mozart (as he signed himself). Davenport's book, c. 1932, is consequently written in an older style than modern readers are ac......more

This book is a very good biography. I like it because it does not romanticize the rumors or imagined stories told about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Instead, it reports facts about his life and tells a more "black and white" story about how he grew and lived his life. I do not mean to say it ignores fac......more