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Burgess, a composer before he turned to writing, worships Mozart with a tinge of envy, to which he himself alludes in a closing essay. While recognizing Mozart as the supreme musical genius, he also finds it necessary to observe that Mozart "may not have the complex humanity of Shakespeare." This witty, freewheeling homage, more divertimento than symphony, opens with the shades of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Wagner squabbling up in heaven. Burgess includes an opera libretto starring Wolfgang himself, fragments of a film script, an ill-conceived prose-poem based on Mozart's Fortieth Symphony, a schizoid dialogue between the author's divided self ("Anthony" vs. "Burgess") and additional celestial dithering by Henry James, Gershwin, Salieri and Schoenberg. The mystery of the composer's genius is neither illuminated nor enhanced by this dazzling confection.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Burgess, the acclaimed author of such works as A Clockwork Orange ( LJ 2/15/63), puts his considerable writing talents to work conjuring up vivid images in prose and poetry, all revolving around his esteem for Mozart. The book begins with a celestial conversation about Mozart's music involving Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Prokofiev, Sir Arthur Bliss, and Richard Wagner. It is followed by an opera libretto on Mozart's life with intermission dialogs that include Antonio Rossini and Stendahl, Arnold Schoenberg and George Gershwin. A prose fantasy in the form of the great G-minor symphony, and a film script that places the author among the various historical characters complete this most unusual tribute to Mozart. A delightful--if off the wall--variation on this year's most popular artistic theme.
- Timothy J. McGee, Univ. of Toronto
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Timothy J. McGee, Univ. of Toronto
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Anthony Burgess (25th February 1917-22nd November 1993) was one of the UK's leading academics and most respected literary figures. A prolific author, during his writing career Burgess found success as a novelist, critic, composer, playwright, screenwriter, travel writer, essayist, poet and librettist, as well as working as a translator, broadcaster, linguist and educationalist. His fiction also includes NOTHING LIKE THE SUN, a recreation of Shakespeare's love-life, but he is perhaps most famous for the complex and controversial novel A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, exploring the nature of evil. Born in Manchester, he spent time living in Southeast Asia, the USA and Mediterranean Europe as well as in England, until his death in 1993.
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This review is from: On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang (Hardcover)
If you can get through this confusing leviathan of a slim book, I guarantee you will know more abut the meaning of music. But not only is this full of the familiar verbal pyrotechnics of Anthony Burgess, but an amazingly diverse conflation of genres - all those announced in the baroque title, and yes, even word music to Symphony 40! Intellectually involving and challenging, rather than an emotional or historical novel. The more you know of classical music the more you'll enjoy this sly book. It repays required rereading.
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