Marrying Mozart

Description:

Amadeus meets Little Women in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award- winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist and their mother secretly draws up a list of prospective suitors in the kitchen, the sisters struggle with their futures, both marital and musical—until twenty-one-year-old Wolfgang Mozart walks into their lives. Bringing eighteenth-century Europe to life with unforgiving winters, yawning princes, scheming parents, and the enduring passions of young talent, Stephanie Cowell's richly textured tale captures a remarkable historical figure—and the four young women who engage his passion, his music, and his heart.

subjects: Composers,  Literature,  Musical fiction,  Biographical fiction,  Fiction,  Romance,  Sisters,  Composers' spouses,  Fiction, romance, general,  Mozart, wolfgang amadeus, 1756-1791, fiction,  Composers, fiction,  Sisters, fiction,  Germany, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general

People: Constanze Mozart (1763-1842),  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791),  Webber family

Places: Mannheim (Germany)