The Mozart Question

Papa wasn't just the best barber in all Venice-he was a musician too, a violinist. But strangely he was a violinist who never played the violin. I never heard him play, not once. . . ." So begins the life story of a famous and reticent violinist, Paolo Levi, as told to a young journalist. The musician speaks of his father's violin, of his teacher who played Mozart by the river, and of how he kept his musical studies secret from his parents. But there is one question the journalist doesn't dare ask. Full-color watercolor illustrations.