MOZART AS A YOUNG MAN.
(From a print by Schwërer.)
Bell's Miniature Series of Musicians
MOZART
BY
EBENEZER PROUT, B.A., Mus.D.
PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, DUBLIN UNIVERSITY
LONDON
GEORGE BELL & SONS
1905
First Published, November, 1903.
Reprinted, 1905.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
MOZART AS A YOUNG MAN ... Frontispiece
(From a print by Schwërer.)
MOZART AT THE AGE OF SEVEN
(From a scarce French print.)
MOZART WITH HIS FATHER AND SISTER
(From a rare print.)
THE MOZART FAMILY
(From the painting by Van de la Croce,
1780, in the Mozart Museum.)
MOZART IN 1791
(From an original at Salzburg.)
PART OF THE SCORE OF THE "DE PROFUNDIS"
SOME BOOKS ABOUT MOZART
Among the more important biographical andcritical works on Mozart are the following:
NISSEN, G. N. VON. "Biographie W. A. Mozart's." Leipzig. 1828.
HOLMES, EDWARD. "Life of Mozart, including
His Correspondence." London. 1845.
Second Edition, edited by the writer of this book. 1878.
JAHN, OTTO. "W. A. Mozart." First Edition,
4 vols. Leipzig. 1856-59. Second Edition,
2 vols. 1867. English translation, 3 vols.
London. 1882.
KÖCHEL, DR. LUDWIG RITTER VON. "Chronologisch-thematisches
Verzeichniss sämmtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amade
Mozart's." Leipzig. 1862.
POHL, C. F. "Mozart und Haydn in London." Vienna. 1867.
NOHL, LUDWIG. "Mozart nach den Schilderungen seiner
Zeitgenossen." Leipzig. 1880.
The article on Mozart by C. F. Pohl in thesecond volume of Grove's "Dictionary ofMusic and Musicians" is also well deservingof study, being, in fact, an ep