MY BROTHER WAS MOZART

A delightful recapturing of the spirit and times of Mozart, in a story of the friendship between a boy and the old, old lady who was Mozart's sister. Again and again, while teaching him to play Mozart's compositions as they were intended to be played, she gives him bits of Mozart's checkered life, from memories of his early childhood, to his poverty-stricken and early death....Mistakenly, we announced that Eackiel was the winner of the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation award (see page 393). That was not an entry in the contest. This book -- MY BROTHER WAS MOZART -- was the winner.....