Amazon.com description: Product Description: One of the most intriguing questions in all of music history is why the people of 18th-century Prague were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most ardent admirers.- both during his lifetime and following his untimely death. Dr. Daniel E. Freeman's MOZART in PRAGUE combines scholarly expertise and personal appreciation for one of the world's most beautiful cities to answer this question definitively. Bringing to life the richness of Czech history and the cultural vibrancy of 18th century Prague, Dr. Freeman's MOZART in PRAGUE vividly depicts Mozart and his contemporaries including the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, composer Josef Mysliveček, Prague musical icons František and Josefa Dušek, the legendary Giacomo Casanova, Marie Antoinette, the emperor Leopold II, and many others, explaining how the composer's ties to Prague resulted in such masterpieces as DON GIOVANNI, LA CLEMENZA di TITO, the "PRAGUE" SYMPHONY, and more. Musicologist Dr. Daniel E. Freeman is the world's leading authority on 18th-century Czech music who was born outside of the Czech Republic. He teaches music history at the University of Minnesota and has appeared frequently as a lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and at scholarly conferences throughout the United States and Europe. His additional works include JOSEF MYSLIVEČEK: "IL BOEMO" - THE MAN and HIS MUSIC, and THE OPERA THEATER of COUNT ANTON VON SPORCK.