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Historical person
1756–1791
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart displayed exceptional musical ability in childhood and toured European courts with his family. After service in Salzburg, he settled in Vienna and worked increasingly as a freelance composer, performer and teacher.
His works include the operas The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute, numerous piano concertos, symphonies and chamber pieces. Mozart’s short career unfolded within the courtly patronage, public concert life and social change of late eighteenth-century Europe.
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Women of History presents fictionalised first-person or close biographical portraits of four real women whose achievements were constrained by family, gender and public expectation: Maria Anna Mozart, Jane Austen, Martha Washington and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The novels draw on documented events while imaginatively reconstructing private conversations, emotions and…
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