Mozart in Revolt: Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception

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Summary: How to love a parent and at the same time keep your sanity.
Review: A refreshing examination of the interesting relationship between a father and son. This is a reinterpretation of Mozart's own words in light of the cultural "wit" of the time.

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Summary: One shouldn't make Mozart an academic nerd
Review: This book consists largely of a single assumption, one that has an interesting premise. Did Mozart contort his correspondence out of frustration, or duplicity, or desperation, or was it ultimately a practical decision, given his father's moralizing? The problem with this assumption would be obvious to anyone but an academic scholar - that not everyone is obsessed with leaving 'correct' traces of their existence through little academic intrigues. Mozart certainly wouldn't have cared what a David P Schroeder thought of him, or of anything. That's where the premise falls flat - at the beginning. It's still entertaining to read Mozart's correspondence, because he could be very entertaining as well as silly.