Life of Mozart
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Life of Mozart
- Author
- Louis Nohl
- Translator
- John J. Lalor
- Language
- English, translated from German
- Type
- Popular biography / nineteenth-century Mozart reception
- Notes
- English translation of Nohl’s shorter Mozart biography; designed as a concise life-and-works introduction.
SCOPE & CONTENT
Nohl’s concise Mozart biography was intended to connect the principal events of the composer’s life with the expressive character of the music. It belongs to a nineteenth-century biographical tradition that sought psychological continuity between personality and works.
RESEARCH VALUE
The book is most useful for reception history and as a compact historical synthesis. Its factual claims need comparison with modern Mozart scholarship, especially source chronology, family correspondence and the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
This dossier preserves concrete edition-level information wherever it can be verified and distinguishes original publication history from later translations or reissues. The record is designed to make title, author, volume, translator and publication variants independently searchable.
RESEARCH VALUE AND LIMITS
The record identifies what the volume can contribute to research and also flags the need to distinguish primary testimony, later editorial framing, reception history and modern factual authority. Existing valid catalogue metadata are never overwritten.
- Format
- File size
- 861.4 KB
- Subjects / people
- Books & Essays · Composers · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Biographies & Monographs
- Catalogue completeness
- 3 / 10 core bibliographic fields