Stitches in Air: A Novel About Mozart's Mother Review

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(More customer reviews)I just read this wonderful novel. It is the story of Mozart's mother. The author wanted to write a nonfiction book on this subject but could not find enough source material. So she took what she had and wrote a book assuming that Mozart's mother, Anna Pertl Mozart, was a gifted composer who studied at the Nonnberg convent before her marriage to Leopold. It is a beautifully written and imagined book. In the Afterward the author makes it very clear what information she did have and which ideas she invented.
The title refers not only to the lace that she made but also to the fact that all her music and almost all her letters disappeared into the air. Mozart's sister and fellow composer, Nannerl, is a major figure in this family novel. The world's effect on all musicians of the day, especially the women, is dramatically brought to life.

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STITCHES IN AIR: A NOVEL ABOUT MOZART'S MOTHER is the compelling story of Anna Pertl Mozart, mother of the inspired and heralded 18th-century composer.A gifted musician in her own right, Anna's talents and aspirations were denied during the Age of Enlightenment, which championed the Rights of Man but held that Nature had designed Woman to cook, clean, knit and darn stockings.

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