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An introduction to the life and music of the composer and musician Mozart.

A biography of the child prodigy who wrote more than 800 pieces of music before his untimely death at thirty-five.

With stunning and expressive illustrations, Diane Stanley portrays Mozart's turbulent life as a marionette show, inspired by the famous Salzburg Marionette Theatre, using an innovative artistic approach to present the life of a renowned musical genius. In concise and lyrical prose, Stanley presents an honest and sympathetic portrait of the boyhood and tragically short adulthood of a composer whose music has lived on for more than two hundred years....

Examines the composer and the influences and historical events that shaped his life.

"The true story of the famous composer's pet starling, who Mozart discovered when he walked past a shop and heard one of his own compositions being sung by a bird"-- Provided by publisher.