Mozart a cultural biography by robert w gutman 406 rating details 105 ratings 12 reviews this major work the result of years of careful study and analysis places wolfgang amadeus mozarts life and music in the context of the intellectual political and artistic currents of eighteenth century europe. The major genres in which mozart worked chamber music liturgical theater and keyboard compositions concertos operas symphonies and oratorios are unfolded to reveal a man of luminous intellect mozart is an extraordinary portrait of a man and his times and a brilliant distillation of musical thought. Mozart a cultural biography user review not available book verdict with this sprawling meticulously researched work gutman richard wagner enters the already crowded field of mozart studies he succeeds admirably in interweaving the chronology of mozarts life and . Mozart a cultural biography mozart a cultural biography mayr harting henry s h o rt e r n ot i c e s rightly bored with him she went off with topham beauclerk into adultery and the production of an illegitimate child none of this was exceptional in aristocratic circles but it ended in a divorce action that intrigued london