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Hermann Abert

W. A. Mozart by Hermann Abert, translated by Stewart Spencer and edited by Cliff Eisen

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September 2008, no. 304

It seems astonishing that one of the most important studies ever undertaken on Mozart should have taken almost eighty-five years to reach the English language. Hermann Abert’s monumental, and indeed famous, work was first published in 1924 and was originally intended as an updated edition to that other monumental work of Mozart scholarship undertaken by Otto Jahn, published in four volumes between 1855 and 1859.

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