Mozart's Journey to Prague and Selected Poems
-
- £4.99
-
- £4.99
Publisher Description
The novella 'Mozart's Journey to Prague' (1855) is an imaginary recreation of the journey Mozart made from Vienna in 1787 to conduct the first performance of Don Giovanni. Set in the rococo world of the Bohemian nobility, it is a charming and playful evocation of Mozart's inner life and creative processes. Morike is one of Germany's greatest lyric poets after Goethe. His poetry combines classicism, romanticism, with elements of the traditional folk or faery tale. This edition contains all the poems for which he is most admired - including the comic idyll, 'The Auld Weathercock'.
Customer Reviews
A typographical disaster
This is a wonderful book, but the electronic version is disfigured by layout problems with the poems and translations; German and English text are mixed together chaotically and the marginal glosses to the Scots versions are not clearly separated. In its present form this should not be in the bookstore, and does little credit either to Penguin or to iBooks.