Mozart's unshakable hold on the public's consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's concise and deft look at the musical genius's life. His passionate analysis reveals truths more fascinating than the myths that have long shrouded the maestro's legend. Mozart traces the legendary development of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievement and the composer who pushed every instrument to its limit and every genre of classical music into new realms. A masterly example of biography, Peter Gay's Mozart illuminates both the man and the age with eloquent economy.