BOOKS: ‘Constanze, Mozart’s Beloved’, by Agnes Selby*

Turton & ArmstrongAvailable from News Weekly Books for $49.95Constanze was Mozart’s beloved wife. He defied his father to marry her. Their life together was a true marriage. She helped copy his music, read him libretti late at night so he could compose his operas, travelled Europe with him. They had two sons. He said of her, ‘She is the most kindhearted, cleverest and best of the Weber women’.Agnes Selby has given us a picture of Constanze which refutes previous Mozart scholars, who presented he…

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