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Mar.24.2012
OK - this appeals to me. I would enjoy "flipping" through Shakespeare's Folio and Mozart's letters. Chaucer is going to be difficult. [I know - I know. Where is Kafka?]
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Imagine...
Curling up on the sofa with one of Jane Austen’s hand-written manuscripts
Marvelling at...
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Dec.02.2011
I am, as they say back in the UK, chuffed as hell that Mystery Scene magazine gives my new novel an absolutely terrific review. Reviewer Sue Emmons says MOZART'S LAST ARIA deserves "a resounding bravo." Sue also calls it "beautifully written and diligently researched. Rees makes the musical realm...
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Nov.29.2011
Marshal Zeringue's Campaign for the American reader continues with an invitation for me to speculate about which actress ought to play the lead in a movie version of my new historical crime novel MOZART'S LAST ARIA. (It's speculation for now, because movie deals take a long time coming...) Here's...
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Nov.04.2011
In my novel MOZART'S LAST ARIA, the great composer's sister Nannerl sings an aria written by her brother. The aria, Vorrei spiegarvi, is about a woman who tells her lover to return to his fiancee, despite the pain this causes her. It's a key moment in the book and I decided to write this rock...
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May.03.2011
The best reason I have for writing a novel about Mozart must surely be that I love his music. Other elements contribute, including my fascination with his neglected sister and the growing historical research which I believe points toward his murder. But the music must be at the center of the novel...
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May.01.2011
For today's release of my new historical crime novel MOZART'S LAST ARIA in the UK, take a look at this two-minute video introducing the book. It features my son dressed as Little Mozart, because I'm even more proud of him than I am of the book... Watch more videos about the book.
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May.01.2011
<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VPvhaY9oVRw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>For today's release of my new historical crime novel<a href="http://www.mattrees.net/mozart.html"> MOZART'S...
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Mar.04.2011
The Heiligestadt Testament: BeethovenFor my brothers Carl and [Johann] Beethoven
And for my Canadian father, who read aloud in the lamplit parlor from the English greats. Recited.
Declaimed. All of that was in me years later when I rented a flat near the British Museum to do research and came upon...
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Jan.27.2011
A writer needs to enter the characters in his novel. I’ve talked about this with other writers, but also found it useful to discuss it with artists from other fields. Two movies I saw in the last week, “Black Swan” and “The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town,” illustrate just why...
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Jan.07.2011
How do you make Jaffa, the ancient Mediterranean port city and present-day gritty suburb of Tel Aviv, look like Vienna in the winter of 1791? Answer: make a book video of a historical novel set in Mozart’s time, and let the lighting do the rest.Last week I headed down to Jaffa for a second day of...
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