Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, credited to Herbert Francis Peyser, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Herbert Francis Peyser. Read in English by David Wales Mozart’s earthly career was so poignantly short yet so filled with incalculable achievement that the author of this booklet finds himself confronted with an impossible task. He has, consequently, preferred to outline as best he could in the space at his disposal a few successive details of a life that was amazingly crowded with incident, early triumphs, and subsequent crushing tragedies, rather than to consider (let alone evaluate) the staggering creative abundances the master bequeathed mankind. - Summary by Author's Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Author credits: Herbert Francis Peyser
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 2:03:47

Catalogue topics

• biography
• music
• music description

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface; Beginning; Early Life In Salzburg; First Visit To Vienna; Sucess In Paris And London — 29:42
2. 02 - Vienna And La Finta Semplice; Italy And Mozart's Early Operas; Il Re Pastore; Mannheim And Paris; The Webers And Paris; Idomeneo — 27:33
3. 03 - Mozart's Break With Salzburg; Marriage; Die Entfuerung Aus Dem Serail; Pupils And Friends - Haydn; Haffner Symphony; Le Nozze Di Figaro; Prague — 27:23
4. 04 - Death Of Leopold Mozart; Don Giovanni; Symphonies in E Flat G Minor And C Major; Cosi Fan Tutte; Later Works — 22:33
5. 05 - The Magic Flute; The Requiem; Mozart's Death — 16:36

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