MOZART

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Salzburg Sparks
2. Chapter Two - The Puppet of Papa
3. Chapter Three - The European Circuit
4. Chapter Four - Notes from the Edge
5. Chapter Five - Vienna Unleashed
6. Chapter Six - Love, Letters, and Laughter
7. Chapter Seven - Court Jester, Court Ghost
8. Chapter Eight - The Freemason’s Light
9. Chapter Nine - Symphony of the Self
10. Chapter Ten - Don Giovanni and the Devil
11. Chapter Eleven - The Jupiter Ascension
12. Chapter Twelve - Requiem for a Dead Man
13. Chapter Thirteen - Gone at 35
14. Chapter Fourteen - Echoes in Eternity
15. Chapter Fifteen - The Sound of Genius
16. Chapter Sixteen - The Man Who Heard God Laughing

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Salzburg Sparks BEFORE HE COULD talk, he could play. They said he was three when he started mimicking his sister’s lessons. Four when he began experimenting with composition. By five, the boy was already a parlor trick. A powdered-wig toddler perched at the keys, dazzling the aristocracy with his tiny fingers and unfathomable brain. This was Salzburg. A sleepy little Catholic bishopric clinging to its own importance. Nothing grand. Nothing imperial. But inside one of its houses lived a boy who didn’t make sense. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Born January 27, 1756. The seventh child of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart, only the second to survive past infancy. His sister, Maria Anna,...