Here is a book for the Desert Island beside the Bible and Shakespeare. Brigid Brophy writes in such depth about Mozart that she also covers art, psychology, women, history and religion almost as a by-product. Mozart the Dramatist is not new; it was written half a century ago, revised 25 years later and has now been resurrected in a series of “lost or neglected classics” under the title Faber Finds.Novelist and critic Brigid Brophy died in 1995, aged 66, of multiple sclerosis, nursed by her husband, National Gallery director Michael Levey, who left his job to care for her. Equality of the sexes is one of her major themes. Brophy quotes a line from The Magic Flute: “Mann und Weib und Weib und Mann/Reichen an die Gottheit an” (“Husband and wife and wife and husb
02 January 2014, The Tablet
Mozart the Dramatist: the value of his operas to him, to his age, and to us
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