Mozart - 1st US edition

by Peter Gay

A masterful biography tracing the development of the man whose life was a whirl-wind of achievement, and the composer who pushed every instrument to its limit. This short form biography helps illuminate both the man and the age. The author is director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library and Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University.

Book is black boards with gray spine, lettering in purple, with a portrait on the cover, in fine condition; jacket with hole in cover helping to expose the underlying cover portrait.