MAYNARD SOLOMON's books on Beethoven and his renowned writings on Mozart, Schubert, and Ives led a contributor to Music & Letters to name him "the leading musicologist-biographer of our time." His classic biography,Beethoven, has been translated into seven languages and his Beethoven Essays received the Kinkeldey Award of the Amcri-can Musicological Society for best book of the year in 1989. Mr. Solomon, who lives in NewYork, has taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities.

Acknowledgments

Table of Money Values

A Note on K6chel Numbers

Introduction

PROLOGUE

The Myth of the Eternal Child

BEGINNINGS

1. Leopold Mozart

2. Early Days

3. The Grand Journey

4. The Family Treasure

5. A Vienna Sojourn

6. The Italian Journeys

SALZBURG

7. The Favorite Son

8. A Composer's Voice

9. A Fool's Errand

  10. Mozart in Love

  11. A Mother's Death

  12. Trouble in Paradise

  13. Parallel Lives

  14. Farewell to Salzburg

VIENNA

  15. Arrival

 16. Constanze

 17. Two Families

 18. Adam

 19. The Impresario

 20. Portrait of a Composer

 21. Freemasonry

 22. The Zoroastran Riddles

 23. The Carnivalesque Dimension

 24. Fearful Symmetries

ENDINGS

 25. Little Leopold

 26. "Carissima sorella mia"

 27. Prague and Beyond

 28. The Journey to Berlin

 29. A "Constant Sadness"

 30. The Last Year

 31. The Final Journey

 32. The Power of Music

Appendix: Mozart's Vienna Earnings

Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index of Compositions

  Classified List of Compositions, with K6chel Numbers

  Operas and Other Stage Works, Listed Alphabetically

  Other Titled and Nicknamed Works, Listed Alphabetically

  Index of Compositions, Listed by K6chel Number

General Index