Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in...

FH was a musician before she was a writer. She was performing for family guests by 1798, when her father's diary says a great deal about her ability, and mentions her being the principal performer...

AK sang Susanna in Mozart 's The Marriage of Figaro in London.

When artist and critic Henry Lamb viewed the image of the last, he apparently heard or saw music in it. He informed her: I think there is something so very good about your head of...

O'Brien , however, was overall dissatisfied with Jazz. She felt something was lacking, and missed the emotional nexus, the moment shorn of all artifice that brings us headlong into the deepest recesses of feeling...

Peter Hall , its first director, likened the play to Mozart 's music for its precision, lyricism, and sudden descents into pain which are quickly over because of a healthy sense of the ridiculous.Samuel Beckett

While in Oxford, JB , along with three of her husband's colleagues, formed a string quartet to study and perform the music of Haydn , Mozart , and Beethoven .

At Salzburg in 1879 MCC heard Hans Richter conducting the Vienna Orchestra (now the Vienna Philharmonic), and thought him the best conductor she had ever heard, superior even to Mendelssohn. In London in 1881...

She lists her interests as language, history, northern landscapes . . . snooker, mortality, cyberspace, and especially people. In another place this list appears reshuffled, stretched to include beautiful men and music from Mozart to...

All the characters are fond of aphorisms (from Anne we get Bitterness is wanton, like showing the hangman the gauge of your neck . . . . It also comes easily to lazy sentimentalists

The Two Bouquets, An Operetta sets out to be very Victorian and also to parody Mozart 's Marriage of Figaro.An Elephant in Arcady, set in the eighteenth century, revolves around the...

The range of allusion in these poems is extraordinarily wide although the tone is never pretentious. Gluttony is described as a ballad after the manner of Bert Brecht . For the title piece—which speaks...

Apple Bough, 1962 (illustrated by Margery Gill , published as Traveling Shoes in the USA), is remarkable from a feminist point of view for the name of the youngest child in the central family...

The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...

The title poem alludes through its name to Mozart 's Magic Flute. Its protagonist, Catherine, nearly eighteen, is gently mocked for her literary aspirations: Her Poems good, if not surprising, / On Friendship, Death...