Marrying Mozart

MANNHEIM 1777. The four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist and their mother secretly draws up a list of prospective suitors in the kitchen, the sisters struggle with their futures, both marital and musical, until the evening when a prodigy struggling to find his own place in the music world walks into their lives: A twenty-one-year-old named Wolfgang Mozart ...

This richly textured love story of a remarkable historical figure and the four young women who engage his passion, his music, and his heart makes eighteenth-century Europe come alive with unforgiving winters, yawning princes, scheming parents, and the enduring passions of young talent.