摘要:This selection was made by Eric Blom from Emily Anderson's English edition of The Letters of Mozart and his Family. The choice, from the letters of the composer only, together with the narrative and commentary interspersed by the editor, makes up a most enthralling biography which will allow lovers of Mozart's music to gain a new insight into his work and a new affection for his personality. The letters of Mozart are supreme among those of composers for the self-revelations of a professional artist and of a human being. Mozart the man is not by any means as faultless and elegantly aristocratic as his art, but is in his way as loveable and perennially fresh. There are crude and occasionally rather mean things in his letters that may shock those who do not make allowances for the manners and mentalities of a different age; but he is what those most deserving of one's truest love always are in the end forgivable.
