HC Robbins Landon provided a passport to Mozart's world | Tom Service

The scholar's in-depth investigations into Mozart revealed the composer to a mass audience - even though he actually preferred HaydnI never knew HC Robbins Landon, who has died at the age of 83. But like thousands of others around the world, he was the only classical music scholar I had ever heard of when I was growing up, thanks to the major books on Mozart he published with Thames and Hudson, the lavishly illustrated and infectiously enthusiastic Mozart: The Golden Years, and 1791: Mozart's La...

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