Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Standard Name: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
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Occupation | Fanny Holcroft | 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... |
Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | |
Reception | Jane Taylor | 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... |
Textual Features | Mary Cowden Clarke | The labours that she details include not only regular artistic creation and routine performance and teaching duties, but also such matters as getting up a subscription to rescue from poverty Madame Sonnenberg (Mozart
's... |
Textual Features | Naomi Jacob | Characters in this book (stereotypes all, according to Paul Bailey) include Haydn
, Mozart
(a little, white-faced genius), Casanova
(possessor of a strange, twisted smile), and the Young Pretender
. qtd. in Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 155 |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | VW
's first two published novels, The Voyage Out and Night and Day, both work in the mode of social comedy to explore the experiences of a young woman coming to grips with her... |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian
, which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artistGuido Reni |
Textual Production | Brigid Brophy | BB
published Mozart
the Dramatist, the result of a lifelong admiration. Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996. 155 |
Textual Production | George Sand | |
Textual Production | Brigid Brophy | The title is from an album inscription written (in English) by Mozart
. qtd. in Brophy, Brigid. Reads. Penguin/Sphere, 1989. 98 |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | AR
published an English translation of Mozart
's opera Cosi fan tutte. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 80: 358 |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | AR
's earliest translations were from Italian, of Dante
and Eugenio Montale
. She first thought of translating a libretto for performance when she was asked to do so by Jane Glover
, who later... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI
, opened at Covent Garden
. The title sounds like an allusion to such radical texts as Robert Bage
's Man... |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | |
Textual Production | Rebecca West | Other books in the series included Stephen Leacock
on Mark Twain
and Sacheverell Sitwell
on Mozart
. Orel, Harold. The Literary Achievement of Rebecca West. Macmillan, 1986. 70 |
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