Konrad Küster is Lecturer in Music at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He is a contributor to the forthcoming Wolfgang Amade Mozart: Essays on his Life and Music (OUP, 1995), ed. Stanley Sadie, and author of Beethoven (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1994).
`A warm welcome to the elegant volume that Oxford University Press
has produced, in Mary Whittall's stylish translation. It reads very
well ... This will for many readers prove to be the ideal
single-volume study of Mozart's life and works: reliable,
stimulating, easily handled, uncantankerous ... This is a valuable
publication, very different from, yet in its own way quite as
useful as, Agnes Ziffer's Kleinmeister zur Zeit der Wiener Klassik
(Tutzing,
1984).'
Peter Branscombe, Austrian Studies
`Kuster's approach is refreshingly new. A study of the artist, not
the man, it keeps the music in the forefront...a wealth of insights
that have eluded previous commentators...a study as widely
researched and deeply considered as this one has much to offer'
Opera
`It's good to observe that Konrad Kuster in his new book pays
tribute to the most important original work done on the Mozart
archive in years.'
The Guardian
`there is some method in the apparently erratic approach, and in a
kaleidoscopic way the book builds up a varied picture that may be
more effective than a more apparently systematic one ... it is a
stimulating one'
Early Music Review - 21 - June 1996
this English translation is very welcome ... a fascinating set of
essays that throw new light on many aspects of Mozart's life and
works ... it can be highly recommended ... It more than lives up to
its title and is innovative in its approach and illuminating in its
observations.
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