Title: Marrying Mozart
First published: 2004
Description: Amadeus meets Little Women in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award- winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist and their mother secretly draws up a list of prospective suitors in the kitchen, the sisters struggle with their futures, both marital and musical—until twenty-one-year-old Wolfgang Mozart walks into their lives. Bringing eighteenth-century Europe to life with unforgiving winters, yawning princes, scheming parents, and the enduring passions of young talent, Stephanie Cowell's richly textured tale captures a remarkable historical figure—and the four young women who engage his passion, his music, and his heart.
Subjects: Composers, Literature, Musical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Romance, Sisters, Composers' spouses, Fiction, romance, general, Mozart, wolfgang amadeus, 1756-1791, fiction, Composers, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Germany, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Mannheim (Germany)
People: Constanze Mozart (1763-1842), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Webber family
LC classification: PS3553.O898 M37 2004