cover image Seventeen Ninety-One: Mozart's Last Year

Seventeen Ninety-One: Mozart's Last Year

H. C. Robbins Landon. Scribner Book Company, $13.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-02-871315-1

`` Amadeus , the play and film, popularized the many legends about Mozart's `decline and fall.' In this factual account of the composer's last year, musicologist Landon gathers authentic contemporary documents to `bring us nearer to Mozart and his wife, Constanze, than does fiction, even at its most inspired,' '' reported PW. Illustrated. (June)