Abstract:Jahn, and myself, taken from the originals, still in these three works the letters are necessarily not only very imperfectly given, but in some parts so fragmentary, that the peculiar charm of this co...Jahn, and myself, taken from the originals, still in these three works the letters are necessarily not only very imperfectly given, but in some parts so fragmentary, that the peculiar charm of this cor- respondencenamely, the familiar and confidential mood in which it was written at the timeis en- tirely destroyed.It was only possible to restore, and to enable others to enjoy this charma charm so novel, even to those already conversant with Mozart's life, that the most familiar incidents ac- quire fresh zest from itby an ungarbled edition of these letters.This is what I now offer, feehng convinced that it will be welcome not only to the mass of Mozart's admirers, but also to professional musicians ; for in them alone is strikingly set forth how Mozart lived and labored, enjoyed and suffered, VI PREFACE.and this with a degree of vivid and graphic reahty which no biography, however complete, could ever succeed in givinoRead More