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Mozart: The Early Years, 1756-1781. By Stanley Sadie. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. [xxv, 624 p. ISBN 0-393-06112-4. $35.00.] Illustrations, bibliography, indexes.
Shortly before his death in March 2005, Stanley Sadie completed the manuscript of the first volume of a long planned two-volume work about Mozart and his music. Sadie was surely correct in perceiving a need for a comprehensive monograph on Mozart's life and works that would take account of over half a century of scholarly studies, both biographical and musical, that have transformed many of our ideas about this most "classical" of composers. Few, moreover, would question this scholar's credentials for ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Mozart: The Early Years, 1756-1781.(Book review)