Mozart

John Suchet presents the evening concert programme on Classic FM, the UK’s most popular classical music station. Before turning to classical music, John was one of the UK's best-known television journalists and newscasters, regularly presenting ITN's flagship News at Ten, as well as all other bulletins, over a period of nearly 20 years. John has been honoured for both roles. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Beethoven: The Man Revealed (2012) and The Last Waltz: The Story of the Strauss Dynasty and Vienna (2015), and most recently, Tchaikovsky: The Man Revealed (2018).

‘A lively read’ Financial Times Best Books of 2016

• ContentsPreface xiii Prologue xv1 The Handsomest Couple in Salzburg 1 2  The Little Wizard14 3  The Grand Tour 28 4  Prodigies of Nature43 5  He Is Skin and Bone55 6  Wolfgangganggangerl67 7  Chevalier de Mozart81 8  Ass-Bumping inVenice 95 9  Bravissimo Maestro!108 10  Gnagflow Trazom12111  There Is NoVacancy 133 12  Wolfgang AmadéRosenkranz 147 13  Off with You toParis! 155 14  My Dear DepartedMother 165 15  Unlucky in Love18116 A Kick in the Backside 198 17  An Honest andVirtuous Wife 210 18  Return to Salzburg225 19  Paternal Pride 24020  Womaniser,Criminal and Genius with Words 253 21  The Final, andGreatest, Symphonies 268 22  A Stranger Knocks285 23  The Taste of Deathon My Tongue 297Afterword 309 Postscript 315 Acknowledgements 317 Notes 319 Index 323About Classic FM 331 About the Author 33