MARRYING MOZART: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 04332808B26533

English Summary/英文概要： MARRYING MOZART is the story of the four spirited Weber sisters of Vienna and the struggling composer who fell in love with all of them in different ways and eventually married one.

Mozart arrives in the city of Mannheim in 1777 with his mother; his child prodigy days are behind him and at the age of 21, he is trying to find work as a composer. He is invited one evening to a musicale at the home of the poor violinist Weber who has four daughters. Quickly, the susceptible Mozart falls in love with the exquisite second daughter, but when he has to leave for Paris to find work and then back to Salzburg, she goes her own way. In fact all four Weber girls go their own ways, falling in love with the wrong people, trying to break free of their manipulative mother who wants to marry them to royalty though they live in a tenement and hardly have money for hair powder. Three girls are gifted sopranos. The eldest adores her father and wants to open a music shop, the second one lands in trouble, betrays Mozart, and becomes a great success at some cost; the youngest, at fifteen an adolescent philosopher, wants only to do good works while the third daughter tries to hold the splintering family together. As they are rushing about, Mozart is climbing with difficulty in the world of music, trying to make a name and a living so that he can defy his father and marry. Each of the four sisters (Josepha, Aloysia, Constanze, and Sophie) would remain close to him for the whole of his brief life.

MARRYING MOZART was born from my years of singing Mozart’s operas but the idea did not form until one lazy afternoon while I drank Viennese coffee under a picture of the composer in New York City’s Cafe Mozart. I began scribbling notes on a bit of paper while eating pastry and listening to a Mozart horn concerto. Within days the book formed into the story of four lovely sisters and one lonely young man who nobody much thought would be a genius. The novel took less than nine months to write with revisions and was published by Viking in 2004. It has been translated into seven languages and I have given readings from it with string quartets, sopranos and once a chamber orchestra in many places throughout America. In Salzburg it was sold down the street from Mozart’s house in a bookshop where the composer himself bought books more than two hundred years ago.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 再版8次，並被翻譯成七國語言的《嫁給莫札特》，描寫音樂界的曠世天才莫札特與韋伯家四姊妹的愛情故事。這四姊妹各有特色，也都十分有才華，到底莫札特最後情歸何人？
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Awards/获奖情况：歷史小說家Stephanie Cowell暢銷著作，再版8次，MARRYING MOZART has been optioned for a film

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German: "Welche Wonne dich zu finden" from Droemer Knaur; French: "épouser Mozart" Jean-Claude Lattes; Italian: "Il matrimonio delle sorelle Weber" Neri Pozzi; Portuguese: Editorial Presenca; Hungarian: Geopen Publishers; Serbian: Globosimo Aleksandrija; Polish: Rebis

“Marrying Mozart is a charming novel, so much so that one would enjoy it even if the gentleman involved in these girls’ lives were not one of the greatest geniuses in the history of music. It also has the virtue of offering a believable and appealing portrait of Mozart himself. A perfect harmony of fact, fiction.”---The Los Angeles Times

“A grand little mini-opera, filled with twists of affection, musical politics, love, loss and chocolate.”---The Seattle Times

"A historical novelist of the first rank."--- Publishers Weekly

MARRYING MOZART is now in its eighth paperback edition and has been translated into seven languages. "A perfect harmony of fact and fiction....tugs at the heartstrings....a grand little mini-opera." Based on the true story of Mozart and the four musical Weber sisters of Vienna. Which one would he choose to marry? Which one would finally choose him? A bookclub and library favorite.

“...is a master of her chosen genre. The historical figures become as real to the reader as any contemporary character...one of the best and brightest writers of historical fiction..."---Washington Times

About the Author/作者介绍： Stephanie Cowell won the 1996 American Book Award for her historical novel, THE PHYSICIAN OF LONDON (W.W. Norton, 1995). Her most recent novel is MARRYING MOZART (Viking, 2004; Penguin, 2005), which is still selling well both in the US and around the world. MARRYING MOZART was recently optioned to Hallie Meyers Shyer. In one of many enthusiastic reviews, Kirkus (starred review) called it “a delight, at once fanciful and erudite: should be richly satisfying to Mozart buffs and fascinating to those in the outer circle as well.” Trained as a lyric coloratura soprano, she lives with her husband in New York City.
曾經是歌劇抒情花腔女高音的Stephanie Cowell，從小浸淫在藝術文化之中，具有深厚的藝術涵養，常以多位音樂大師或繪畫大師作為描寫的對象。Stephanie Cowell著有多本歷史小說，如《Nicholas Cooke: Actor, Soldier, Physician, Priest》、《The Players》、《THE PHYSICIAN OF LONDON》、《MARRYING MOZART》等。《THE PHYSICIAN OF LONDON》曾獲得美國書卷獎(American Book Award)。目前現居紐約。
作者網站 http://www.stephaniecowell.com/

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