A lovely and unusual gift for any Mozart fans out there. “The shortest route to the real Mozart is through his letters, of which a great many survive. This edition presents a selection of letters from every period of his life: the earliest were written to his mother when he was thirteen and the last, to Constanze, his wife, a few weeks before his death. The book is illustrated with a magnificent collection of engravings, prints, portraits and landscapes evoking late-eighteenth-century Europe. For lovers of Mozart’s musicthere could be no richer or more enthralling memorial to his work or introduction to his personality than this illustrated collection of his letters.” Solid, clean, tight copy. First US edition. Faint erasure mark on title page. Dust jacket crisp with some rubbing and minimal edge wear. Please see photos.#mozart#music#classicalmusic#nonfiction#letters#biography#hardcover (Shelf 4B)