Eduard Mörike

"Zum 200. Geburtstag von Eduard Mörike seine wichtigsten Werke in einem Band. Mit Gedichten in der von ihm selbst besorgten Zusammenstellung von 1867, einer Auswahl der nachgelassenen Gedichte sowie der "Idylle vom Bodensee". Darüber hinaus enthält der Band den Roman "Maler Nolten", die "Wispeliaden", die berühmte Novelle "Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag" sowie weitere Märchen, Novellen und einzelne Schriften." --Publisher description.

"Mozart and his charming young wife Constanze are en route to Prague for the opening of Don Giovanni when the composer absent-mindedly wanders into the garden of a noble Bohemian family and finds himself the unwitting guest of honour at their daughter's wedding. This delightfully high-spirited novella paints an unforgettable picture of Mozart's creative genius - its playful heights and its terrible depths. Morike's own lyrical powers are also displayed in his poetry, and this selection includes his most popular romantic and classical folk and fairy-tale poems, among them the comic idyll 'The Auld Steeplecock'." "The only dual-language version of the poetry available in paperback, this volume also includes an appendix on Morike and Hugo Wolf, who set Morike's poems to music."--BOOK JACKET.

Eduard Mörike used the occasion of Mozart's actual fall 1787 journey from Vienna to Prague to stage his new opera "Don Giovanni" there, as an occasion to have Mozart and his wife Konstanze spend some time in the company of the fictional family of a certain Count von Schinzberg. We learn of how Mozart's creative process often worked, what the overt reasons for his financial failure were, of his generosity as a human being, and of his own premonitions of his early death.