Authors: Nicholas Kenyon
ISBN-13: 9780641923180, ISBN-10: 064192318X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pegasus Books NY
Date Published: November 2006
Edition: Bargain
Nicholas Kenyon has been Director of Classical Music at the BBC since 1996. He was a music critic for The New Yorker, The Observer, and The Times (London), and is the author of the influential "Authenticity and Early Music." A board member of the English National Opera and the Guildhall School of Music, Nicholas was appointed a CBE in 2001.
"It does all one could ask, and more, of a pocket guide."-The Times Literary Supplement
"One of the newest and most recommendable Mozart books is the Pocket Guide to Mozart. Written in a beautifully lucid and enthusiastic style."-The Independent on Sunday
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, an easy-to-use guide to Mozart's life and music, including: symphonies, concertos, operas, a seventy-five-page biography, and a poignant assessment of what the composer means to us today.