It was my visits to Vienna, Salzburg, Prague and the Salzkammergut mountains which transformed me from a Mozart music fan to someone prepared to devote years of his life to writing a novel about the great man’s last days. Yet I was able to tie the fiction to existing places where the great composer lived and worked. The people and events are, after all, more than 200 years distant. Writing about Mozart for my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA ( ) required considerable imagination. Then I went about finding the other places that would’ve touched the lives of Nannerl and Wolfgang. It was in this village that I had the idea of transplanting her to the Imperial capital to probe her brother’s death – the idea for MOZART’S LAST ARIA. I imagined how it must have been for her after her years as a child piano prodigy, playing in the great palaces of Europe with her brother Wolfgang. Nannerl was packed off to be married to a boring local functionary in the tiny village of St. As I watched the sun on the glimmering surface of the water, the first intimations of how I would write my novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA came to me. Random winner.įrom the little house in the mountains above Salzburg where Nannerl Mozart lived, I looked out across the lake. MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT MATT, MOZART OR OPERA. For more about his books, go to For his podcast and blog, go to WIN A COPY OF MOZART'S LAST ARIA. Matt Rees is the author of five crime novels, the latest of which is MOZART’S LAST ARIA. Today I continue the Mystery Author Alphabet Meme with a guest post from Matt Rees.
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