{"product_id":"mozart-in-paris-9781910593721","title":"Mozart in Paris","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart leaves Salzburg for Paris. The French capital promises to liberate the 22-year-old from the suffocating grip of his father, and from a city that is unable to accommodate his genius.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut there is no grand entrance for the former child prodigy. When Mozart arrives in Paris, he is cash-strapped, unknown and his French is poor. His mentor, the critic Baron von Grimm, introduces him to a number of Parisian nobles. But recognition is hard-won, and at times the French court appears indifferent to Mozart's talents and disapproving of his spontaneity. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTracing the composer’s six-month stay in the city of lights, \u003cem\u003eMozart in Paris\u003c\/em\u003e dramatizes the confrontation between a sparkle-eyed genius and mundane reality. Frantz Duchazeau spotlights a frustrating yet formative period of the composer’s life — and in doing so creates a living, breathing portrait of a man whose music, as Einstein famously said, “was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SelfMadeHero","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49414411157847,"sku":"9781910593721","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781910593721.jpg?v=1730523508","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mozart-in-paris-9781910593721","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}