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Authors: Matt Rees

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Recommended Reading and Listening

Books

Mozart: A Life
by Maynard Solomon A thorough historical record that also gives many insights into Mozart’s music.

The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context
by Ruth Halliwell Given the intense nature of Wolfgang’s relationships with Nannerl and his parents on their long tours of Europe, a focus on the family is revealing.

Vienna: A Cultural and Literary History
by Nicholas T. Parsons History as if told by a knowledgeable raconteur over a meal of Wiener schnitzel and tafelspitz.

Recordings

Mozart: Favorite Works for Piano
by Alfred Brendel The greatest interpreter of Mozart performs his most exquisite works.

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
by Otto Klemperer A classic recording of
The Magic Flute
from 1964.

Mozart: Symphonien Nos. 35–41
by Karl Böhm Sometimes controversial, but an inspiring rendering of the last and greatest of Wolfgang’s symphonies.

On the web

http://www.mozarthausvienna.at/
Recently renovated, the Vienna house where Mozart lived while writing
The Marriage of Figaro
is an extensive museum. However, the location of his final apartment on Rauhenstein Lane is now a modern department store.

Also by Matt Rees

Fiction

The Fourth Assassin

The Samaritan’s Secret

A Grave in Gaza

The Collaborator of Bethlehem

Nonfiction

Cain’s Field: Faith, Fratricide, and
Fear in the Middle East

Credits

Cover design by Emin Mancheril
Cover photograph © Katya Evdokimova/Arcangel Images

Copyright

Originally published in slightly different form in 2011 in Great Britain by Corvus.

Map on pp. xii–xiii copyright © 2011 by Jeff Edwards.

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MOZART’S LAST ARIA.
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EPub Edition © November 2011 ISBN: 9780062099372

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