Klarinet Archive - Posting 000011.txt from 2008/08

From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] New book: "The Mozart Cache"
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:12:16 -0400

Hi Lori!! It has been too long since I've seen you to say hello. Hope all
is well with you. My regards to your husband. Would love to hear from you
after you have finished the "Mozart Cache." Last week, I hear four separate
performances of K. 361 as played by the Midsummer Mozart orchestra, which I
played with until my retirement. Last night, it was "The Abduction from the
Harem," which is so full of musical riches that one does not know where to
start.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Lori Lovato [mailto:lorilovato@-----.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 9:01 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] New book: "The Mozart Cache"

HI Señnor Leeson,
Just now ordered a couple of your books, I think it's a "good catch."
Ha, I couldn't resist, I've been watching the Cubbies!
When I see you next (I'm thinking positive of course) will you sign them for
me?
Take care,
Lori

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Daniel Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
wrote:
> This is NOT a fiction and nothing to do with the clarinet, but some of you
> have asked me to announce when my new book comes out. Well, here it is.
>
> "The Mozart Cache," is now published and available for sale. The work is a
> non-fiction scholarly study. The text describes a collection of objects
> (many, if not most, shown in color), which came from the estates of both
> Leopold Mozart and his friend and former landlord Johann Lorenz Hagenauer,
> with the Mozart pieces being in the majority. No music is involved in the
> book. It is entirely devoted to portraiture and iconography. If you find
> the subject of Mozart portraits and icons interesting you might find the
> book to your liking. There is also some new Mozart history derived from
the
> research involved.
>
> How the collection came to be, and where it has been for the past 2¼
> centuries is described in considerable detail. However, the greater part
of
> the book is spent in examining each item in the collection and making
> statements about what I believe the various pieces are and what evidence
> allows me to reach these conclusions. In my opinion, the collection
contains
> a number of previously unknown and entirely authentic portraits of Mozart
> (though one portrait dates from ca. 1875), several of his sister, Nannerl,
> one of his mother, and one of his maternal grandmother, whose image has
> never previously been known to exist in any form. There are also five
> portraits of Johann Lorenz Hagenauer and a variety of Mozartean icons,
many
> of which I believe can be traced back to the Mozart family's Grand Tour of
> 1763-1766. There are also a variety of items collected by Leopold in the
> years following the Grand Tour up to the time of his death in 1787, at
which
> point the collection effectively disappeared, its location unknown. Cliff
> Eisen of King's College London recently highlighted one of these portraits
> in a presentation he made about two months ago. I refer to this portrait
as
> "The Man in the Red Coat," while Eisen refers to it as "The Hickel
Mozart,"
> after Joseph Hickel a Viennese court painter known to Mozart.
>
> For those interested in reading the book, the easiest and least expensive
> way to order it is through my website, www.leesonbooks.com. Once on the
> website, click the title above the cover image for "The Mozart Cache," and
> once there, click on "Order." That screen will provide a toll free phone
> number for book sales managed by the publisher, and also a link to the
> publisher's website from which orders may also be placed. The toll free
> number can also be used to make toll free calls placed outside of the
United
> States, providing one precedes the number with the International Dialing
> Code of 001 for calls to the U.S. I confirmed this to be the case for
> England, and presume it true for all other countries.
>
> The cover of the book on display at the website shows a sample of five
> images from the collection displayed in a semi-circular array. From left
to
> right, I believe them to be a portrait of Mozart's sister Nannerl at age
11
> or 12, painted by the German-born English painter John Zoffany, a portrait
> of Mozart's mother, artist unknown, the image of the Man in the Red Coat,
> which shows Mozart at the age of 26, a portrait of Mozart's maternal
> grandmother, Eva Rosina Pertl (who lived with her daughter and son-in-law
> following their marriage in 1747 and who survived to December, 1755, just
> one month before Mozart was born), and a portrait of Johann Lorenz
Hagenauer
> at the age of ca. 65.
>
> Only a few brief blurbs about the book are available because it has not
yet
> been reviewed. That will occur over the next few months and reviews will
be
> added to my website as they become available. You may review the book
> yourselves and send me the review after which I will consider placing it
on
> my website providing you agree.
>
> Around September 1, the book may also be ordered from Amazon.com, Barnes &
> Noble.com, Borders.com, etc. The price asked by online booksellers is
higher
> than that requested by the publisher. I have no control over bookseller
> markups. The price of the book when ordered from the publisher is $37.50
> (U.S.) plus shipping and applicable taxes, if any, for each copy. I regret
> the high price, which is caused by three factors: (1) there are almost 200
> pictures in the book and most of them are in color; (2) the book is
> oversized (8-1/2 x 11 inches), which allows many images to be shown in a
> large format; and (3) it has a great deal of text to cover in its 223
pages.
> There are also chapters on biometric facial identification, the matter of
> fraud in dealing with portraiture, the history of the Firmian portrait,
> which was once thought to be that of Mozart but is a portrait of an
entirely
> different person, and several other related topics.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to read this. Drop me a note if you have
> questions. I hope you enjoy the book.
>
> Dan Leeson
> dnleeson@-----.net
> SKYPE: dnleeson
>
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