Mozart

A boy asks Mozart how to learn composition. Mozart points to his ear, his head, and his heart: “Here is your school.”

In late eighteenth-century Europe, Mozart made music that seemed to pour from him—and left behind letters that let us hear the man behind it. This intimate portrait gathers his own words on making art, facing the world, and following the talent that, he said, “pushes for utterance and torments one.” The voice is quick, playful, candid, and sometimes contradictory: no polished legend, but a working artist thinking aloud. What do Mozart’s letters reveal about the mind that could turn its deepest thoughts into music?

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