A Bloodthirsty Masonic Oath: Matt reads from MOZART’S LAST ARIA
Wolfgang’s sister believes his membership of an illegal lodge of Freemasons put him in danger. Then she stumbles across a secret meeting of Masons and understands just how severe his jeopardy was. The...
View ArticleThe Music of MOZART’S LAST ARIA: ‘Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman’
Wolfgang’s piano variations on a French nursery rhyme played by Nannerl’s son in Chapter One of my new historical thriller MOZART’S LAST ARIA. They’re called “Ah, vous dirai-je.” Perhaps you know them...
View ArticleMOZART’S LAST ARIA: director’s cut
All this week I’ve been posting videos of readings from my new historical thriller MOZART’S LAST ARIA, in which the great composer’s sister investigates his suspicious death. I started the week with a...
View ArticleThe Music of MOZART’S LAST ARIA: Symphony 41
In my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA, Nannerl Mozart, the great composer’s sister, hears this symphony, which is known as the “Jupiter,” for the first time shortly before she’s due to perform one of her...
View ArticleThe Music of MOZART’S LAST ARIA: Hell’s Revenge
In the concert scene of my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA, the dead composer’s sister-in-law sings “Der Hölle Rache” (“Hell’s revenge”), an aria from the opera The Magic Flute. It’s a particularly...
View ArticleThe Music of MOZART’ LAST ARIA: piano concerto in C
Nannerl Mozart, Wolfgang’s sister, ends the concert scene in my novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA with her brother’s beautiful C piano concerto. Here’s the fabulous second movement of the concerto played by...
View ArticleFiction best way to look at ‘Arab Spring’
Here’s a talk I gave to a group of journalists in Jerusalem last week about my new ‘Arab Spring’ short story. In DAMASCUS TRANCE, I decided to make an immediate response to the bloody crackdown on...
View ArticleThe Music of MOZART’S LAST ARIA: Vorrei spiegarvi
In Chapter 22 of my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA, Wolfgang Mozart’s sister Nannerl sings for Baron van Swieten. The aria for soprano “Vorrei spiegarvi” (“I wish to explain to you”) is a tender love...
View ArticleThe Music of MOZART’S LAST ARIA: The Requiem
In my novel about the death of the great composer, I knew I’d have to give a central position to Mozart’s Requiem, his most powerful piece of music and the one that’s most laden with death — perhaps,...
View ArticleMOZART’S LAST ARIA book trailer
My new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA is narrated by the great composer’s sister Nannerl. After her brother dies, Nannerl comes to Vienna to find out how it happened. She uncovers some sinister characters...
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