Review: A Window into the Past
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2013
My Mozart is the life of Nanina Gottlieb told in the first person from the perspective of old age. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was her mentor and later her lover.Apart from blinking at some of the editing and frowning occasionally when some of the details didn’t fit what I learned about Mozart on a trip to Salzburg and Vienna (Wien) a number of years ago, I enjoyed My Mozart. It captured a time and a lifestyle with considerable flair when it settled down to a continuing narrative after a rambling start. Juliet Waldron established her authority with enough believable details for me to concede my memory was at fault without feeling the need to research verifiable truths.It is a book to be read for the simple enjoyment of a past era and as a window into the life of a man who posterity has mantled in greatness