Mozarts' Journey to Prague
Author(s): Eduard Morike
Mozart and his charming young wife Constanza are en route to Prague for the opening of Don Giovanni when the composer absent-mindedly wanders into the garden of a noble Bohemian family and finds himself the unwitting guest of honour at their daughter's wedding. This delightfully high-spirited novella paints an unforgettable picture of Mozart's creative genius - its playful heights and its terrible depths. Morike's own lyrical powers are also displayed in his poetry, and this selection includes his most popular romantic and classical folk and fairy-tale poems, among them the comic idyll 'The Auld Weathercock'. The only dual-language version of the poetry available in paperback, this volume also includes an appendix on Morike and Hugo Wolf, who set Morike's poems to music.
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aAnnotated with scholarly tact, finely rendered into English... this selection from MArike is a joy, in just harmony with its content.a (George Steiner, "Observer" (UK))
Eduard Morike was born in Ludwigsburg in 1804. He was a Protestant pastor before teaching literature at a seminary in Stuttgart. He spent the last decade of his life in increasing solitude, keen to avoid the fame his writing had brought him. David Luke is an Emeritus Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. His translation of Faust won the European Poetry Translation Prize.
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- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.2
- : 01 May 2003
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : notes
- : 256
- : 833.7
- : Paperback
- : Eduard Morike