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Mozart's sister : a novel / Rita Charbonnier ; translated by Ann Goldstein.
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- ISBN: 9780307346780 (hc)
- Physical Description: vi, 322 p.
- Publisher: New York : Crown, 2007.
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| General Note: | Translation of: Sorella di Mozart. |
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| Subject: | Berchtold zu Sonnenburg, Maria Anna Mozart, Reichsfreiin von, 1751-1829 > Fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Charb | 31681001818269 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Offers a fictional portrait of the life of Maria Anna Mozart, the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a musical prodigy in her own right, who was forced by their father to put aside her talent and become a piano teacher to support his ambitious plans for her brother. - Baker & Taylor
A richly textured historical novel offers a fictional portrait of the life of Maria Anna Mozart, the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a musical prodigy in her own right, who was forced by their father to put aside her talent to become a piano teacher to support his ambitious plans for her brother, until a potential suitor helps her find a way to express her musical genius. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. - Random House, Inc.
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, affectionately called Nannerl by her family, could play the piano with an otherworldly skill from the time she was a child, when her tiny hands seemed too small to encompass a fifth. At the tender age of five, she gave her first public performance, amazing the assembled gentlemen and ladies with the beautiful music she created. But her moment of glory was cut short, for even as her father carried her around to receive their praise, her mother began laboring to bring a second child into the world. After hours of her motherâs pained cries and agonized shouts, which rang in Nannerlâs ears like a terrifying symphony, the child was born. They named him Wolfgang.
Nannerl loved him instantly. As they grew, Wolfgang and his sister became inseparable, creating a fantasy world together and playing music the likes of which no one had ever heard. They were two sides of a single person, opposite in temperamentâhe lighthearted and charismatic, she shy and retiringâbut equal in talent. Yet it was Wolfgang who carried their fatherâs dreams of glory.
And as the siblings matured, Nannerlâs prodigious talent was brushed aside by her father. Instead of playing alongside her brother in the worldâs great cities, she was forced to stop performing and become a provincial piano teacher to support Wolfgangâs career. Nannerl might have accepted this life in her brotherâs shadow but for the appearance of a potential suitor who reawakened her passion for life, for love, for musicâand who threatened to upset the delicate balance that kept the Mozart family in harmony.
Mozartâs Sister draws you into the lush palaces and salons of eighteenth-century Europe and into the fascinating life of a woman who ultimately found a way to express her own genius.
