Mozart in Italy

You don’t have to be able to hum Mozart to find this book utterly engrossing. As a fan of both the fabled composer and Dame Jane Glover, Mozart in Italy is a match made in heaven. I couldn’t put it down. – Joanna Lumley An account of the teenage Mozart’s operatic awakening is packed with humanising detail … [Glover] makes clear that Mozart lived very much in the real 18th-century world of dirt, illness, bedbugs and discomfort, not permanently wrapped in some fuzzy golden halo of brilliance. * The Guardian * Mozart in Italy is a fascinating account of classical music’s greatest failure – a story of promise unfulfilled, opportunities missed and roads not taken. * The Spectator * A fine conductor, Glover is also an accomplished writer, displaying, as in her earlier books, a nonchalant grace in marshalling her sources, reading cannily between their lines and taking care to provide proper historical context as the Mozarts zigzag over the chessboard of Italian princely states. * Literary Review * Glover’s historical awareness of Italy’s operatic legacy is profound, like her expertise on things Mozartian … Glover is, rarer than a good conductor, an enchanting explainer. Her literary approach resembles her sometimes exceedingly subtle and decorous conducting. * Opera Now * Brimming with life, Glover’s vibrant account of Mozart’s unique and absorbing adolescence is joyously rewarding. * The Toronto Star *

Jane Glover is a conductor with a long and successful career. She has been Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Artistic Director of The London Mozart Players, and, since 2002, is Music Director of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque. She has conducted concerts and operas in Britain, the United States of America and across the world, and is especially known for her interpretations of Mozart. She is a regular broadcaster and is also the author of Mozart’s Women and Handel in London. She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year’s Honours. She lives in London.

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