Marrying Mozart
Language: English
1756-1791 1763-1842 Biographical Biography & Autobiography Classical Composers Composers & Musicians Composers' spouses Contemporary Family Fiction Fiction - Historical General Genres & Styles Historical Historical - General Juvenile Fiction Literary Mannheim (Germany) Mozart; Constanze; Mozart; Wolfgang Amadeus; Music Romance Siblings Sisters Webber family
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Dec 28, 2004
Description:
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Amadeus* meets *Little Women* in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award- winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist and their mother secretly draws up a list of prospective suitors in the kitchen, the sisters struggle with their futures, both marital and musical—until twenty-one-year-old Wolfgang Mozart walks into their lives. Bringing eighteenth-century Europe to life with unforgiving winters, yawning princes, scheming parents, and the enduring passions of young talent, Stephanie Cowell’s richly textured tale captures a remarkable historical figure—and the four young women who engage his passion, his music, and his heart.