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An illustrated introduction to eighteenth-century Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, discussing the influences and historical events that shaped his life and work.

These are the stories of the American soldiers, the "everyday fighting men", and the nurses, who were the first to know the horrifying truth about the Holocaust because they liberated the death camps. The liberators' recollections are historically important. Most are now in their eighties and nineties and many still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and continue to experience Holocaust-related nightmares.

An American heiress turned resistance hero, Muriel Gardiner impressed everyone she met with her beauty, intelligence, and powerful personality. Her adventurous life led her from Chicago's high society to a Viennese medical school, from Sigmund Freud's inner circle to the Austrian underground. Over the years she saved anti-fascists and countless Jews from the Holocaust, providing shelter and documents ensuring their escape.

Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth, and equally unholy, Reich.

Beethoven was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven's most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston. Biographer Morris brings the composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was not so much a social rebel as an astute manipulator of powerful and privileged aristocrats, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to keep secret), he nonetheless produced towering masterpieces. Morris illuminates Beethoven's life, including his interactions with the women he privately lusted for but held at bay, and his work, whose grandeur and beauty were conceived "on the other side of silence."--From publisher description.

Presents a brief biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in simple text with illustrations, providing information on his childhood, his education, and his musical accomplishments.

Describes his triumphant tours across Europe as a child prodigy, his servitude under the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg and the tragedy of his early death.

Examines the career of the Austrian-born bodybuilder who became an enormous box-office success in a second career as a movie star.

Imaginary letters from Mozart to the reader present highlights of his life.

In eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy, after his body is found near a gypsy camp.