1791年的最后一个月被罗宾斯•兰登称为“音乐史上最大的悲剧”——35岁的莫扎特英年早逝。这次事件被各种谜团和阴谋论包围，如中毒论和对性丑闻的指控。兰登教授试图拨正这些错误说法，重建莫扎特生命的最后一年。书中对《魔笛》《安魂曲》等作品进行了详细讨论，并试图厘清莫扎特与共 济会、与萨列里的关系等。

本书是一部书信体的莫扎特自传，以英国著名音乐评论家埃里克•布洛姆1956年出版的《莫扎特书信集》为底本，由著名音乐学家钱仁康教授翻译，译文流畅，文词优美，保持了原作的韵味，值得阅读、收藏。为了增强图书的可读性，我们分别以亲情、友情、爱情为主题对底本进行了重新编排，并增加了120余条相关注释，还配有上百幅精美图片，形象生动地诠释了莫扎特和他那个激情澎湃的文艺时代。

莫扎特提倡的人道主义世界观和纳粹思想尽管明显不相容，第三帝国仍将这位伟大作曲家的音乐用于巩固自己的政权。本书作者艾瑞克•莱维查阅了期刊、日记、演讲稿等大量档案材料，再现了纳粹利用莫扎特建立自己文化及政权优势的史实。

Written by one of the world's outstanding music historians and critics, the late Alfred Einstein, this classic study of Mozart's character and works brings to light many new facts about his relationship with his family, his susceptibility to ambitious women, and his associations with musical contemporaries, as well as offering a penetrating analysis of his operas, piano music, chamber music, and symphonies.

埃及王子塔米诺（西蒙·基赛德 Simon Keenlyside 饰）在临危受难之际得到了夜女王的拯救，夜女王将自己的女儿帕米纳（Dorothea Röschmann 饰）的肖像拿给塔米诺看，美丽的帕米纳一下子就俘虏了王子的心。夜女王告诉王子，帕米纳被一位名叫萨拉斯特罗的 男子给掳走了，如果王子能够将自己的女儿平安的带回来，就把帕米纳许配给他为妻，塔米诺欣然应允。
实际上，萨拉斯特罗并非夜女王所说的那样十恶不赦，夜女王的丈夫在死前将女儿托付给他，交由他来管教，这一举动招致了夜女王的不满，于是设下了如此的计谋。在拯救帕米纳的途中，聪慧的塔米诺渐渐识破了夜女王的阴谋。

Hermann Abert's classic biography, first published in German more than eighty years ago and itself based on the definitive mid-nineteenth century study by Otto Jahn, remains the most informed and substantial biography of Mozart in any language. The book is both the fullest account of the composer’s life and a deeply skilled analysis of his music.
Proceeding chronologically from 1756 to 1791, the book interrogates every aspect of Mozart’s life, influences, and experience; his personality; his religious and secular dimensions; and the social context of the time. In “a book within a book,” Abert also provides close scrutiny of the music, including the operas, orchestral work, symphonies and piano concertos, church music and cantatas, and compositions for solo instruments.
While the tone of Abert’s great work is expertly rendered by Stewart Spencer, developments in Mozart scholarship since the last German edition are signaled by the Mozart scholar, Cliff Eisen, in careful annotations on every page. Supported by a host of leading Mozart scholars, this immense undertaking at last permits English-language readers access to the most important single source on the life of this great composer.