Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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.

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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

BB published Mozart the Dramatist, the result of a lifelong admiration.

After the death of a beloved grand-daughter, GS travelled with Manceau through Italy where she collected material for the novels Flavie, Constance Verrier, and a historical novel, Les beaux messieurs de Bois-Doré...

The title is from an album inscription written (in English) by Mozart .

AR published an English translation of Mozart 's opera Cosi fan tutte.

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...

Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .

EF has carried out a great deal of scholarly commentary of a kind best calculated to be useful to readers (though she did not finish her MA thesis on nineteenth-century sexual fantasists like Ouida and...

In the years between the 1926 staging of The Constant Nymph and the appearance of Escape Me Never!, MK co-wrote with Basil Dean the play Come With Me (1934), and adapted Charles Dickens 's...