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“Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces” by Patrick Mackie (Macmillan Publishers). Writing a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart nowadays is no easy task.
The poet Patrick Mackie hears Mozart’s music as impropriety, as ambition—and even as revenge.
“I love opera not as an expert, or even as an informed connoisseur.”