Everyman-EMI Music Companions - 2: Mozart

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THE EVERYMAN-EMI MUSIC COMPANIONS provide a musical equivalent to the series of literary masterpieces that are already available from Everyman's Library. The series is being developed in joint venture with EMI, whose huge catalogue of historic recordings is extensively used. Each volume has attached to it THREE COMPACT DISCS-nearly four hours of music. The selections of music where possible are whole works rather than snippets or extracts. The series is sold in both bookshops and record shops via EMI's international subsidiaries. MOZART VOL 2 - Following Andrew Steptoe's biography of Mozart in vol 1, volume 2 is devoted to a selection of the composer's letters together with a commentary on the music contained in the accompanying CDs. The 1200 or so letters of Mozart and his family, written during the composer's lifetime, form the most fascinating correspondence by any artist of the 18th century or earlier, and Mozart himself ranks high among letter writers of any age or occupation. The inclusion of letters from his father, a dominant but loving parent determined to supervise his son's career even after he had grown up, highlights the problems which Mozart encountered in breaking with his provincial background, as well as providing a glimpse of the social and domestic details that tell us so much about the kind of person Mozart