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＞Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Perhaps the most important Mozart biography ever written,
this book is subtle, rich-textured, endlessly stimulating
and provocative -- just like the man's music.

From Publishers Weekly
Beethoven biographer Solomon here presents a revisionist
biography of Mozart, which his publisher claims is the
first full-scale biography in nearly 40 years.
Certainly it is a major work in terms of heft and range.
Solomon will have none of the "divine child" approach,
limning instead a man growing up under the shadow of
an impossibly demanding father who was at once
overprotective and jealous of his son's vast gifts.

There is a great deal of psychological probing into the
agonies of their relationship, much of it sensible;
and Solomon paints an indelible portrait of Mozart's
last years, begging for money, guilty about his
deprived wife Constanze, resentful of being virtually
cut out of his father's will, yet still heroically
forging a new musical aesthetic.

He also clears up much of the mystery about the bizarre
Requiem commission,and the burial in the "pauper's grave."
He is convinced that Mozart and his cousin "the Basle,"
recipient of many of the infamous smutty letters, were
lovers for a time; and the portrait of the composer that
emerges is of an extraordinarily sensitive,
liberal-minded (the Masonic material is superb), extravagant
but responsible person who has been much belittled by
biographers beginning almost immediately after his death.

Solomon also writes acutely about what was daringly new,
and wonderfully enduring, about Mozart's music.
Only a certain lack of flow between the chapters suggests
the origin of much of this material in lectures.

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