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Mozart's Wife (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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Giddy sugarplum or calculating bitch? Pretty Konstanze aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-law's loathed her. Mozart's friends, more than forty years after his death, remained eager to gossip about her "failures" as wife to the world's first superstar. Maturing from child, to wife, to hard-headed widow, Konstanze would pay Mozart's debts, provide for their children, and relentlessly market and mythologize her brilliant husband.

Mozart's letters attest to his affection for Konstanze as well as to their powerful sexual bond. Nevertheless, prominent among the many mysteries surrounding the composer's untimely death: why did his much beloved Konstanze never mark his grave?

If you gobbled up Confessions of a Courtesan by Deborah Hale, you will love Mozart’s Wife by Juliet Waldron

Reviews This is a multi-faceted novel which brilliantly joins the nomenclature of romantic and historical fiction. I would recommend this novel to lovers of music, lovers of history, and just plain lovers. --Knowbetter.com

Juliet Waldron brings Konstanze and her wayward genius of a spouse to vivid life. She avoids the pitfall of the biographical novelist by refusing to make either of them the villain, and her insights into character are extraordinary. --Liz Burton, The Blue Iris Journal

Mozart's Wife is a story of love, jealousy, grief and most importantly--forgiveness. ...Fastpaced; Ms. Waldron has exquisite, flowing prose. .. a must read... --Kim Murphy, Sime-Gen

Waldron's writing is humorous, erotic, and fluid. Her beautiful use of words reveals the delicate, volatile intimacy inherent in marriage. In the antagonist, Waldron characterizes a woman's quiet (and sometimes not so quiet) struggle to remain the dutiful wife while also protecting her children and herself from her husband's self-destructive behavior. Mozart's Wife is a consuming piece that reminds us that all humans, regardless of talent or skill, are within the boundaries of fault and outside the lines of perfection. I highly recommend this wonderful book. --Melissa Levine,
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  4. Data di pubblicazione
    11 gennaio 2014
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“Not all who wander are lost.” Juliet Waldron was baptized in the yellow spring of a small Ohio farm town. She earned a B. A. in English, but has worked at jobs ranging from artist’s model to brokerage. Twenty-five years ago, after the kids left home, she dropped out of 9-5 and began to write, hoping to create a genuine time travel experience for herself—and her readers—by researching herself into the Past. Mozart’s Wife won the 1st Independent e-Book Award. Genesee originally won the 2003 Epic Award for Best Historical, and she’s delighted that it’s available again from Books We Love. She enjoys cats, long hikes, history books and making messy gardens with native plants. She’s happy to ride behind her husband on his big “bucket list” sport bike.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004XNZVXQ
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ BWL Publishing Inc. (11 gennaio 2014)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 4277 KB
  • Utilizzo simultaneo di dispositivi ‏ : ‎ illimitato
  • Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
  • Miglioramenti tipografici ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 500 pagine
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
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Vanessa Shepherd
3,0 su 5 stelle Actually accurate?
Recensito in Germania il 16 luglio 2021
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Although I did enjoy the beginning of the story about how they met and started to fall in love. I was definitely shocked about all of the "women" he slept with. This book portrays the genius as a womanizer who constantly neglected his wife's needs and focused mainly on himself. There are many people who think he was a womanizer but in truth, was too religious to actually commit such behaviors (as describes in the book).
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angela
5,0 su 5 stelle enjoyable historic romance...and happily from a woman's perspective!
Recensito in Canada il 20 novembre 2013
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So many great men are memorialized and women left in obscurity. Waldron does a beautiful job of bringing Konstanze Mozart to life, portraying her relationship with her creative but difficult husband. A good read, especially if you are travelling to Vienna,like I did as I read it! Enjoyable novel overall!
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Al Past
5,0 su 5 stelle Highly entertaining fictional autobiography
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 20 aprile 2009
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Most readers (myself included) know little more about Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart than they might have seen in the movie Amadeus, where what few insights were portrayed were notoriously inaccurate (being based on a work of fiction in the first place). Even if one loves Mozart's music, as so many do, and loves books about music and musicians, the personal lives and character of these two celebrities are largely unknown. In fact, the person who delves further into history will find that Constanze, in particular, has been treated unflatteringly and even harshly by the chroniclers, as so many famous women of history were. What a great opportunity to learn something about one of musical history's notable people!

Juliet Waldron reinterprets the life of Constanze Mozart in most convincing fashion in this splendidly researched and masterfully written account of her life from young teen to aged widow. Constanze is not a perfect woman: she has her faults. As a naive young girl, she is swept off her feet by the dashing and famous young prodigy, delights in his sensuality, and willingly marries him hardly knowing what kind of life she is in for. Her new husband, she comes to learn, is a spendthrift and bon vivant. Though devoted to her, he also works diligently to cultivate a whole city full of aristocrats, church officials, wealthy merchants with attractive daughters to be taught, networks of influential, often jealous artists and composers, and platoons of flashy, high-living show people. In addition, he must travel frequently, and, in whatever time remains, write immense quantities of music that will please the paying public. In addition, her in laws appear from time to time to add to the misery.

An attractive, talented singer herself, Constanze has a hard life, though one not without its pleasures. She has status, she has clothes, and they generally live in sumptuous lodgings (which they can seldom afford). Custom does not allow her to manage their finances, however, and while both husband and wife delight in their children, she finds childbirth terribly difficult, debilitating, and on occasion, tragic. They quarrel from time to time, and when she finds proof that Mozart has strayed, she cannot resist straying herself.

The famous death scene in Amadeus is recast in Mozart's Wife, probably to fit the available evidence more closely. (As such, it is considerably more ghastly and affecting than in the movie.) The movie concluded at that point, but the real Constanze lived to be 80, discovering what love in a stable marriage is like, developing a keen sense of financial management, and helping pass on much of her first husband's music to the world. This period of her life is given full measure in the novel.

Ms. Waldron does a wonderful job of recreating an authentic feeling of life in 18th century Austria. I am a music lover myself, and I enjoyed reading the names of the composers and other luminaries he ran across in his brief life: Salieri and Sussmeyer are fairly well known, but other lesser-known names were just as intriguing. Would you believe Casanova? In sum, Mozart's Wife is a thoroughly entertaining and even informative novel. The writing, editing and proofreading are very nearly perfect. There is an extensive bibliography of sources at the end.

I would call Mozart's Wife a fictional autobiography, though some might term it (or wish it) a romance. I wouldn't object, remembering that Ernest Hemingway once pointed out there is no such thing as a romance with a happy ending. Highly recommended for fans of historical fiction and those interested in classical music.

Al Past reviews for PODBRAM. He is a member of The Independent Authors Guild and the author of the popular Distant Cousin series of novels.
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Corri
4,0 su 5 stelle Excellent historical portrayal
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 1 marzo 2012
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I came across this book quite by accident, following a recommendation from a friend and although I would not normally read historical fiction I was intrigued by the title and actually love Mozart's music too. Mozart's wife did not disappoint either. The sharp characterisation of the individuals who pass through Mozart's relatively short life together with styles of living, betrayals, passions and hardships relevant to the period are beautifully captured giving much thought to how much has changed in the last 250 years. It is easy to forget, in an age of contraception, equality and female independence, how vulnerable women were then to continuous pregancy and precarious financial and home instabilities, even those in the upper end of cultured and affluent society, battling daily with the wanton lack of responsibility of many aristocratic and rich men. All this is portrayed with fierce accuracy and attention holding detail - the author certainly has researched her protagonist extremely well. My only slight gripe is some lack of pace for the fist third but eventually the book gathers real momentum to a fascinating conclusion.
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3,0 su 5 stelle Seriously?!
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 25 agosto 2017
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Ups and downs - loads of speculation and a bit heavy handed on the bodice-ripping - but worth going to the end if you skim over the silly sexual intrigues which are pure conjecture built around speculation. Makes Constanza ultimately more real, though not necessarily accurately.
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