Realistic, moving, engrossing and positively brilliant, this first American biography of the 18th century composer recreates Mozart - the man and his music - against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and writing of Mozart was truly a labor of love, during which she retraced every journey he made, saw every dwelling (then extnat) in which he had ever lived, every theatre where his works were first performed, and every library and museum where his mauscripts were then to be seen.