Mozart, The Music, The Myth, The Legend, w/ Jan Swafford

"I think Mozart just really loved people." - Jan Swafford.


For the Season 8 Finale, I had the great pleasure of welcoming
back Jan Swafford, the great writer on music, who has written a
spectacular new biography of Mozart. In this conversation, we
talked about who Mozart really was as a person, some of the myths
that defined him during his lifetime and into the present day,
and of course, the incomparable music that Mozart was able to
create, sometimes on a whim or in a single afternoon. This is a
conversation about a man who understood people perhaps better
than almost any composer, and a musician who scraped and
struggled during his life while achieving immortality through his
creations. Please note that this will be the last episode of
Season 8 and Season 9 will begin on September 8!