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...centuries listeners have been trying to reconcile the ineffability of Mozart's music with the childishness and bawdy coarseness of the man who composed it. The easiest and most common method has been to regard Mozart as somehow not a man at all-to view him as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously. In his biography Mozart, published in English in 1982, Wolfgang Hildesheimer succeeded to a large degree in scraping away the legends surrounding the composer, but now Maynard Solomon, in his extraordinary new study, Mozart: A Life (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), has gone much...
...Homer tells us that the child gods are timeless and unchanging," writes Solomon in his thesis-setting prologue, "The Myth of the Eternal Child." "In the course of time, however, Mozart's physical appearance began to diverge from the world's image of him. It was as though the grown Mozart was quite a different person, one descended from but not identical with a legendary child Mozart. The maturing historical Mozart became the porcelain-child Mozart's double, and the divine child survived his own death." Unable to escape the image that had charmed the courts of Europe when...
Mendelssohn String Quartet. Plays themusic of Mozart, Neidhofer and Schumann. PaineConcert Hall, 8 p.m. Free...
...President Kristen M. Clarke '97, who stoodin line to buy tickets, said "nothing is wrong.""Everybody is happy and excited to attend theconcert," she said. Clarke said frisking is notlimited to events featuring hip-hop. She said shehad once seen audience members at a Mozart concertfrisked before entering...
...extraordinary new study, "Mozart: A Life" (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), Maynard Solomon does more to humanize the composer than any biographer before him. For two centuries, TIME critic Michael Walsh says, listeners have been unable to reconcile Mozart's ineffable music with his bawdy childishness: "The easiest and most common method has been to regard Mozart as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously." But Solomon's sharply-written, layered chapters document the grown composer's own psychological caving-in to the legend of his prodigious childhood. Says Walsh: "Mozart and the members of his circle come...