Review: More Than Just a Teeny Bopper Crush
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2012
There was a time in his short life when Mozart was the equal in status to any of today's rock stars or movie idols. Unfortunately, the court in Vienna grew tired of him and... Well, this is not Wolfgang's story. Rather, "My Mozart" is about a talented young woman, whose lifelong passion for The Maestro brings her to the heights of ecstasy and the depths of sorrow.From the tender age of nine, until Mozart's death when she was all of 18, Nanina Gotlieb has adored the kapellmeister. Talented and shy, she grows from child to woman to prima dona under Mozart's hands. Told through Nanina's point of view and filtered through the perspective of old age, a particularly evocative part of the book is a passionate account centering around a secluded house in the woods, where god and worshiper, genius and muse create "The Magic Flute."Juliet Waldron's descriptions of something as mundane as the stench of an outhouse or as uplifting as a Mozart duet sung with absolute perfection under a moonlit sky dragged me into this other world, with all its contradiction. This is a book that touches the senses and left me wondering, along with its narrator, "How much music was lost forever the night he died?"