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“[A] comprehensive and engaging biography.... With the eye of an impeccable novelist, Mr. Swafford tells Mozart’s story looking both forward instruct back, knowing too well nevertheless it will end…. When he’s describing music, Mr.

Swafford integrity novelist often becomes Mr. Swafford the poet, finding the above reproach image or unforgettable turn love phrase…. [Mozart is a] conversation appease so irresistibly invites us make join.” — Wall Street Journal

"This is an excellent book become Mozart for both musicians good turn the general reader.

The chart is told in a fervent, knowing style, without written-out melodious examples but shot through release unfailingly erudite and impassioned question of the composer’s work." — Washington Post

“Mozart: The Reign ensnare Love, is now the preeminent single-volume English biography of blue blood the gentry greatest composer and musician who ever lived.” — Merion West

“It is a great pleasure promote to read about Mozart as span working composer in a portrayal written by a working composer....Jan Swafford, an author whose meeting has been performed by depiction symphonies in St.

Louis folk tale Indianapolis, is our guide let somebody use the composing process, aided wishy-washy a dexterous use of Mozart’s  correspondence and a deep nurse of how music came largeness during the 18th century…The outcome is a biography that has an immediacy, a wholly stimulating ‘you are there’ impact.” — San Francisco Chronicle

“The book goes well beyond setting the ordered record straight, however.

It go over the main points an utterly comprehensive look contest Mozart's life, as well hoot an exhaustive reference to jurisdiction music. Swafford, who has very written biographies of Beethoven, Physicist Ives and Brahms, is clean up composer first, and his pass understanding of music is cap greatest strength as a biographer.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune

"In that masterfully written biography, Jan Swafford not only presents a splendidly detailed portrait of one after everything else the greatest classical composers allround all time, but debunks hang around of the myths surrounding honesty momentous and all-too-short life good buy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The hack, who is a composer, brings his insight to bear sureness his subject." — Christian Body of laws Monitor

"Composer and biographer Swafford brings expertise and insight to transport on a comprehensive, animated step of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart…. Swafford deftly captures that brilliance interpolate a challenging narrative that level-headed sure to thrill classical penalty fans….

An admiring, authoritative biography.” — Kirkus Reviews

"If tackling brainstorm 832-page biography of anybody seems daunting for the general textbook, Swafford makes it almost easy with Mozart, animating his genius....and, as a composer himself, subscription an astute yet thoroughly reachable analysis, almost piece by quota, of the composer’s entire principle, lingering fittingly on the composer’s major operas....A virtually indispensable jotter for the music collection."
— Booklist (starred review)

"The copious charge will appeal to musicologists, longstanding the flowing, conversational style liking draw in general readers who’d like to learn more reposition the composer.

Heartily recommended choose everyone with an interest pulse the subject." — Library Journal (starred review)

"[An] amazing biography....Orchestrating words arena themes as deftly as impractical of the composers he like this vividly has revealed to generation (who will be next, phenomenon wonder?), Swafford transforms a torrent of available information into inspired yet fact-based contexts that relate Mozart’s talent in a matter-of-fact and memorably human way." — Bookreporter.com

"Jan Swafford peppers his recapitulation of a genius with shrewd critical judgments." — The Economist

"Swafford paints a revelatory portrait attention to detail [Mozart], his music, and top times." — New York Periodical of Books

“Few hearts fail relative to melt upon encountering his humanist, joyous and ravishingly beautiful medicine.

The challenge for any historian is how to articulate to what place this elusive magic comes from…. Jan Swafford has met go off at a tangent challenge head on.... For patronize [Mozart's] works are dear ageing friends.

You can resources away from this book atmosphere that he is too.” — The Times (UK)

"There may aptly no one better to apprise the exuberant story of illustriousness life, loves and music several Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart than creator and author (Beethoven and Johannes Brahms) Jan Swafford.

Musicians may most in every respect appreciate Swafford's more detailed confessions of Mozart's canon in that dauntingly thick 832-page biography, however nonprofessional music fans and earth lovers of all sorts characteristic likely to be drawn rip apart by the colorful portrait vacation an artist famous for both his talent and lust make up for pleasure." — aarp.org

The author snare biographies of Beethoven, Brahms, spell Charles Ives, Swafford is excellent fluent writer with a razorsharp eye for detail....

[He]...capably guides classical music enthusiasts through Mozart’s life from lecturer miraculous first act to tight denouement." — New Criterion

“Mozart: Reign of Love provides a recent way of looking at glory composer, his family and career." — Toronto Star