Mozart's starling

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Explores the unlikely bond between the famous Austrian composer and his pet starling, providing an unexpected window into human-animal friendships, music, and the nature of creative inspiration.

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Title Statements

Full title :Mozart's starling / Lyanda Lynn Haupt.

Summary

Explores the unlikely bond between the famous Austrian composer and his pet starling, providing an unexpected window into human-animal friendships, music, and the nature of creative inspiration.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Little, Brown and Company
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780316269568, 0316269565, 9780316370875, 0316370878
oclc:ocn979560584
LC Classification:ML410.M9
Dewey Decimal:780.92

Prelude: A plague of inspiration -- One: The starling of Seattle -- Two: Mozart and the musical thief -- Three: Uninvited guests -- Four: What the starling said -- Five: The starling of Vienna -- Six: How the starling knew -- Seven: Chomsky's starling -- Interlude: The heart of time for birds and Mozart -- Eight: Birds of a feather -- Nine: Mozart's ear and the music of the spheres -- Finale: Three funerals and a flight of fancy -- Coda.

Subjects

Austria Biographies Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers … Composers Composers -- Biography. -- Austria Étourneaux Human-animal relationships Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus MUSIC -- Genres & Styles MUSIC -- Reference Relations homme-animal Starlings