Life of Mozart, Volume III concludes Otto Jahn’s landmark biography, the foundation of modern Mozart scholarship. Built on documents and rigorous historical method, the work replaced legend with verified fact and set a standard for the study of the composer’s life and music.
This final volume carries the story through Mozart’s last and greatest years, treating the mature operas, symphonies, and the unfinished Requiem, with close attention to the works themselves. Jahn unites biography and analysis to give a full account of the composer’s genius. Long regarded as the standard life of Mozart, the completed biography remains an essential and authoritative source for musicology.