The essential introduction to Mozart and the pleasures of classical music in a witty, exuberant style to match Mozart's own. What to Listen For in Mozart reveals the essence of Mozart's music as well as his tumultuous life and times, examining his achievements within the aristocratic society of the late 1700's, a society hovering on the brink of revolution , and the details of his career and tragic death, shunned and destitute at the age of thirty-five. From the Hardcover edition.