| Sumario: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy --he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills-- he wrote as an adult some of the finest music in the entire European tradition. Julian Rushton offers a concise and up-to-date biography of this musical genius, combining a well-researched life of the composer with an introduction to the works --symphonic, chamber, sacred, and theatrical-- of one of the few musicians in history to have written undisputed masterpieces across every genre of his time. Rushton offers a vivid portrait of the composer, ranging from Mozart the Wunderkind --travelling with his family from Salzburg to Vienna, Paris, London, Rome, and Milan-- to the mature author of such classic works as "The Marriage of Figaro", "Don Giovanni", and "The Magic Flute"
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