5/22/2023 0 Comments Mozarts biography![]() ![]() The complexity problem is further aggravated by Gutman's proclivity for covering EVERYTHING in Mozart's short life. Any one of his long sentences can contain as many as five references to people, places, historical events and musical works that will be utterly obscure to people, like many of us, who lack a scholar's grounding. Gutman's writing style, which is given to serial convolutions. Let me try to explain what I mean, and I'll start with the downside.įirst of all, long stretches of the book are close to being unreadable if you lack familiarity with 18th century central European history and geography, and don't stand already on intimate terms with the corpus of Mozart's work. I've rarely had such sharply ambivalent reactions to a biography as I did to this one. ![]()
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