Eva Gesine Baur tells the dissonant life of Mozart without glossing over the fact that the creator of incomprehensible music also had a dark side: Aware of his divine talent, he lied, deceived, and schemed. He dispensed bliss and distributed malice. The biography attempts to explore this abyss. Mozart himself posed the problem that his admirers and biographers grapple with: He wrote letters that laid bare his human weaknesses. Other contemporary accounts also depict a Mozart who was anything but divine. Blaming his father, Salieri, or his wife Constanze as scapegoats is prohibited by the facts. The separation of understanding Mozart's work from the man himself was already described by philosopher Norbert Elias as "artificial, misleading, and unnecessary." Who knows how restless and uneasy his contemporaries were.