Previously published as Wolfgang: The Man. The Myth. The Music. by Tom Connell.

He could dazzle a court—and still worry about the next bill.

From a crowded family home in Salzburg to the courts, concert rooms and theatres of Europe, Mozart follows the composer's extraordinary thirty-five years: child performer, ambitious composer, husband, father and fiercely independent musician.

Behind the familiar image of genius lies a life of friendship, love and bereavement, dazzling success and persistent money worries. Drawing on family letters, contemporary documents and carefully identified later recollections, this illustrated biography brings that restless, funny, proud and tender man into view.

The story continues beyond his death, through Constanze's work, the survival of his manuscripts and the legends that still shape how we hear his music.

This revised illustrated edition combines an AI-generated manuscript and original AI-generated illustrations with Tom Connell’s editorial review, fact-checking, direction of the prose style and contribution to image design. Historical illustrations retain their source credits.