Marrying Mozart

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.

First sentence: I FOUND MY SISTER'S WEDDING HAT TODAY IN A ROUND box of thin wood at the bottom of my wardrobe.

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Editions

3

Pages

368

ISBN

9780143034575

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