Further Reading 315 This author has grouped Austria’s mountains into 25
groups and about 100 different walks.
THE ARTS
Some of the nicest books on the arts may be found in
museum gift shops.
Music
Exploring Haydn: Unlocking the Masters Series. David Hurwitz.
Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2005.
The book is accompanied by a CD to help introduce the
reader to the life and works of Haydn.
Mozart: A Cultural Biography. Robert W Gutman. New York:
Harcourt Brace, 1999.
A sensitive look at the life and personality of Austria’s
most-loved musical composer that also explains in-depth
how his work fits in with the music of his time.
Beethoven. His Spiritual Development. J W N Sullivan. New
York: Vintage Books, 1960.
This poignant and intense book on Beethoven’s life follows
his creative path and describes how his music was affected
by his social being, affairs of the heart, deafness, failing
health and spirituality.
Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives). Edmund
Morris. New York: Harper Collins, 2005.
A compact biography of this great composer.
Schubert’s Vienna. Raymond Erickson (ed.). New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1997.
Various scholars focus on Vienna during the Biedermeier
period. They do not just examine developments in
music and the other arts, but link them with the political
repression of the day.
Johannes Brahms: A Biography. Jan Swafford. New York:
Vintage/Random House, 1999.