On Mozart

On Mozart is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would have us believe. He was certainly a genius--in that the legends are correct and the evidence abounds--but he was also a working composer in a society crowded with other working composers and he had to make a living at his craft to maintain the style of living to which he and his family had become accustomed. By observing a realistic and human genius the collection of essays portrays a more complex individual than the divinely inspired Mozart of myth who took his notes directly from God.