Mozart & posterity

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Mozart and Posterity is a strikingly original study of the great composer's impact over the last two centuries. Any attempt to understand Mozart and his music inevitably conjures up a multiplicity of images, a variety of interpretations and a plethora of unanswered questions, which reach far beyond the sphere of music into literature, philosophy, fine art and theology. Figures such as Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Mendelssohn, Kierkegaard, Morike, Wagner, Shaw, Richard Strauss, Schoenberg, Barth, Hesse, Chagall, Bergman, Hildesheimer, Shaffer and Forman have all attempted to define the elusive nature of the composer's genius in a seemingly impossible quest to discover 'the true Mozart."