Film Focus: Amadeus

Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Tom Hulse, F. Murray Abraham.
Academy Award Winner: Best Picture (1984)


Books About Mozart

Mozart, by Richard Baker. Thames and Hudson, 1982.

The Mozart Handbook: A Guide to the Man and His Music, compiled & edited by Louis Biancolli. Greenwood, 1975, 1954.

Mozart, by Eric Blom. Dent, 1974 (Revised edition).

Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791, by Volkmar Braunbehrens, 1989.

Mozart, by Marcia Davenport. Avon, 1979.

The New Grove Mozart, by Cliff Eisen. Palgrave, 2002.

The Life of Mozart: An Account in Text and Pictures, by Hans Conrad Fischer & Lutz Besch. St. Martin's, 1969.

Mozart, by Peter Gay. Viking, 1999.

Mozart, by Wolfgang Hildesheimer. Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1982.

Amadeus: A Mozart Mosaic, by Herbert Kupferberg. McGraw-Hill, 1986.

Mozart: The Golden Years, 1781-1791, by H, C. Robbins Landon. Schirmer, 1989.

Mozart: The Last Year, 1791, by H. C. Robbins Landon. Schirmer, 1988.

The Life and Death of Mozart, by Michael Levey. Stein and Day, 1971.

Mozart Speaks: Views on Music, Musicians, and the World, selected and with commentary by Robert L. Marshall. Schirmer, 1991.

Mozart, by Hugh Ottaway. Wayne State University Press, 1980.

Mozart: A Life, by Maynard Solomon. HarperCollins, 1995.

Mozart: A Bicentennial Tribute, by Wendy Thompson. Shooting Star, 1996, 1989.


Books About Mozart's Music


Mozart's Operas, by Rudolph Angermuller. Rizzoli, 1988.

Mozart the Dramatist: The Value of his Operas to Him, to his Age, and to Us, by Brigid Brophy. Da Capo, 1988.

The Magic Flute, Masonic Opera: An Interpretation of the Libretto and the Music, by Jacques Chailley. Knopf, 1971.

Mozart's Operas: A Critical Study, by Edward J. Dent. Oxford University Pr., 1966, 1947.

Mozart's Concerto Form: The First Movements of the Piano Concertos, by Denis Forman. Praeger, 1971.

The Magic Flute: A Guide to the Opera, by Peter Gammond. Barrie & Jenkins, 1979.

Mozart and His Piano Concertos, by Cuthbert Morton Girdlestone. Dover, 1964.

What to Listen for in Mozart, by Robert Harris. Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Famous Mozart Operas: An Analytical Guide for the Opera-Goer and Armchair Listener, by Spike Hughes. Dover, 1972.

Mozart: The Music in His Life, by Ivor Keys. Holmes & Meier, 1980.

Opus Ultimum: The Story of Mozart's Requiem, by Daniel N. Leeson. Algora, 2004.

Three Mozart Operas: Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, by R. B. Moberly. Dodd, Mead, 1968.

The Complete Operas of Mozart: A Critical Guide, by Charles Osborne. Atheneum, 1978.

The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, by Charles Rosen. Faber, 1971.

Mozart Seen Through 50 Masterpieces, by Paul Roussel. Habitex, 1976.

Mozart & Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas, by Irving Singer. Johns Hopkins, 1977.

Mozart and the Enlightenment: Truth, Virtue and Beauty in Mozart's Operas, by Nicholas Till. Norton, 1993, 1992.

The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, edited by Neal Zaslaw with William Cowdery. Norton, 1990.


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