Mozart's Starling
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Explores the unlikely bond between the famous Austrian composer and his pet starling, providing an unexpected window into human-animal friendships, music, and the nature of creative inspiration.
Contents:
Prelude: A plague of inspiration -- One: The starling of Seattle -- Two: Mozart and the musical thief -- Three: Uninvited guests -- Four: What the starling said -- Five: The starling of Vienna -- Six: How the starling knew -- Seven: Chomsky's starling -- Interlude: The heart of time for birds and Mozart -- Eight: Birds of a feather -- Nine: Mozart's ear and the music of the spheres -- Finale: Three funerals and a flight of fancy -- Coda.
Subjects:
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Composers -- Austria -- Biography.
Starlings.
Human-animal relationships.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Composers -- Austria -- Biography.
Starlings.
Human-animal relationships.
ISBN:
9780316370899
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BIOGRAPHY Mozart, Wolfgang | Sandhills Indoors | Biography | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276).