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    The Intimate Mozart

    By Juliet Waldron

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    Giddy sugarplum or calculating bitch?

    Pretty Konstanze aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-law's loathed her. Mozart's friends, more than forty years after his death, remained eager to gossip about her "failures" as wife to the world's first superstar. Maturing from child, to wife, to hard-headed widow, Konstanze would pay Mozart's debts, provide for their children, and relentlessly market and mythologize her brilliant husband. Mozart's letters attest to his affection for Konstanze as well as to their powerful sexual bond. Nevertheless, prominent among the many mysteries surrounding the composer's untimely death: why did his much beloved Konstanze never mark his grave?

    Adapted and updated from the original Mozart's Wife.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBWL Publishing Inc.
    Release dateApr 19, 2011
    ISBN9781926965772
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    The Intimate Mozart
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    Juliet Waldron

    “Not all who wander are lost.” Juliet Waldron was baptized in the yellow spring of a small Ohio farm town. She earned a B. A. in English, but has worked at jobs ranging from artist’s model to brokerage. Twenty-five years ago, after the kids left home, she dropped out of 9-5 and began to write, hoping to create a genuine time travel experience for herself—and her readers—by researching herself into the Past. Mozart’s Wife won the 1st Independent e-Book Award. Genesee originally won the 2003 Epic Award for Best Historical, and she’s delighted that it’s available again from Books We Love. She enjoys cats, long hikes, history books and making messy gardens with native plants. She’s happy to ride behind her husband on his big “bucket list” sport bike.

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    • 4/5
      Mozart's Wife is a well researched novel about the life of the brilliant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart told from the point of view of his wife, Konstanze. She was one of four sisters and Mozart actually courted her sister first. The bones of the story are based in fact and Ms. Waldron has written a romance around the cold hard facts.While brilliant when it came to composing his music, Mozart was less than smart when it came to caring for his future. He appears to have been a live for today kind of man and was constantly searching for patrons to keep the money coming in for food and clothing. But he spent what came in with no thought for his wife's concerns. He was a man of very super highs and devastating lows. Ms. Waldron created the spinning world in which he lived with great skill. I suspect that like most great artists he was just driven to create and didn't care for the troubles of the everyday.His relationship with his wife appears to have been complicated yet loving and it's here where I felt a bit let down by the book. This aspect of the tale devolved into a Harlequin romance - not that I have anything against a steamy read now and again I just don't expect to find one in the midst of a historical novel.The characters were well developed and Ms. Waldron kept my interest as Mozart flitted through his life. Konstanze had the hard part; living with a mercurial genius and giving birth to 6 children of which only 2 survived. She had some difficulties with her confinements and yet she went on to live a very long life for the times.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this--my husband and I just watched "Amadeus" (his first time seeing it, while I've watched it 20-30 times) before Christmas. I was pleased to see this side of the story. It was very well developed, and I really found myself not only sympathizing with Konstanze, but with "Wolfi" a bit, too (as I did watching the movie). I felt like this book did a great job of sharing information about Wolfgang, as, naturally, most readers would be interested in things about him--but it also showed Stanzi's various sides, as well.
    • 4/5
      Prior to reading Juliet Waldron's view of Wolfgang and Konstanze Mozart, I knew only what I saw in "Amadeus". Not a very flattering picture of either character. Waldron has created wonderfully intense characters. Stanzi was a very strong woman trying desperately to understand her genius of a husband. Mozart did not make it easy. Waldron's descriptions of 18th century Austria are just amazing. The reader is transported to another time in history. We meet Mozart's contemporaries, friends and foes. This is an incredibly well written, well researched novel. The reader is able to feel Stanzi's pain and distress over her husband, the death of her children and her less than perfect life with the musician. History has not been kind to Konstanze, this book may alter any preconceived ideas. I give it 4/5 stars
    • 1/5
      I usually like historical fiction but I struggled to find any redeeming value in this one. I guess it was interesting to see Mozart through the eyes of those who knew him best, who knew him as a man and not a master. Alas, the character of Mozart's wife was rather pathetic. If this book is to be believed she was essentially Mozart's house keeper and concubine. Mozart was a passionate man, but a terrible husband and father. His wife's life was full of misery, sacrifice and near poverty. Only after his death was she able to pay of his massive gambling debts by hocking all his music. Sad if true.It was a dismal book to read and the first half was basically just purple descriptions of various sexual encounters. A different episode on practically every page with very little filler in between. It was... awkward... like watching your grandparents have sex. Not a fan.
    • 3/5
      Mozart's wife, Konstanze, married the young musical genius when she was only 16 and quickly learned that while they loved each other, he was neither capable of marital fidelity, nor being financially responsible. Konstanze, however, was no cringing victim despite being almost constantly pregnant, and losing the majority of her children to the various diseases that made childhood mortality incredibly high in the eighteenth century. How she coped with life, and triumphed after Mozart's early death makes for a fascinating read.
    • 5/5
      A well-written novel about composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told from the perspective of his long-suffering wife, Stanzi. Juliet Waldron captures the grime and pain of life late in the 18th century and bits of splendor from aristocratic ways. Most of it concentrates on Mozart as an undeniable genius who simply cannot control his need to be the life of every party. His sexual needs and drinking appear to be on par with fellow aristocrats, but his spendthrift ways reduce Stanzi to living on the edge of ruin. Eventually she feels obliged to get vengeance. The novel proposes that Mozart is murdered by a lover's jealous husband. The story continues as renewed interest in Mozart's work earns her a comfortable fortune and much honor in society. She regrets that her sons lack musical genius. The war on women in Central Europe in the 18th century is graphically pictured, and Stanzi and few other characters stand out for their nobility. There is no sugar-coating. This makes Mozart's Wife well worth reading.
    • 5/5
      Many a romance novel ends with marriage. The courtship, the chase, will they or won't they - these things provide the backbone of the novel, and in the end there is marriage and, presumably, a happy-ever-after. In Juliet Waldron's historical novel, however, the courtship and marriage of Konstanze Weber and Wolfgang Mozart is only the beginning. The true story is of the marriage that follows, which every wife knows is when romance and love is truly tested. Konstanze begins as a self-conscious young maiden, overlooked in favor of her more talented sisters. She falls in love with Mozart and can hardly believe that the astonishing young composer has chosen her for his one true love. But marriage to the musical genius turns out to be a tumultuous existence for Konstanze, who quickly matures into a wife, a mother, and the household accountant. Konstanze, who grew up in a musical family, is not unappreciative of Mozart's genius, but reality dictates that music is primarily the thing which brings money into the house; it is their livelihood; it serves a purpose. While Wolfgang Mozart follows his muse, creating the music he loves - whether there is a market for it or not - Konstanze tries to prevent them from falling into poverty. Mozart is flighty, unpredictable, and easily swayed by his friends. When flush with cash, he spends it like water, gambles it, and lends it to his friends. Konstanze has to bully him to take charge of the household accounts and keep them from ruin. She finds herself constantly pregnant, every childbirth a life-endangering horror and the precious infants too easily carried off by disease. Besieged by scandalous rumors, Konstanze does not want to believe her husband is unfaithful to her, but soon the unpleasant truth cannot be ignored and her husband scarcely bothers to hide it. Juliet Waldron has created a believable, multi-faceted portrait of a woman loved but betrayed, adoring and yet resentful, capricious and sometimes spiteful. Her characterization of Konstanze Weber Mozart far outshines that of the genius composer himself, who becomes rather a minor character by the end of the novel. Mozart's Wife is a memorable historical novel about a woman who was long overshadowed and forgotten in the shadow of her husband, but without whose intervention his music might have been consigned to obscurity.