Editions for Mozart's Starling: 0316269565 (ebook published in 2017), 0316370894 (Hardcover published in 2017), (Kindle Edition published in 2017), 03163 Mozart's Starling - Kindle edition Lyanda Lynn Haupt. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Mozart's Starling. How Do You Bond With Mozart? Adopt A Starling:Deceptive Cadence Naturalist and author Lyanda Lynn Haupt took her research on Mozart to a whole new … Mozart’s Starling – How Starling Influenced Mozart In His Music Pieces. What may be less familiar to you is that Mozart was also a lover of nature and in particular birds. Many stories surround this fascinating claim. There is an entire book on the topic. Mozart bought a starling in late May of 1784 after hearing the bird sing what he "Mozart's Starling is a delightful, enlightening, breathless flight through the worlds of Carmen and Star, two European starlings who join their human counterparts in exploring life and music and nature, helping to shed light on the connection between humans and birds — those of us bound to terra firma, and those who are free to soar. For about three years the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart kept a pet starling.The starling is remembered for the anecdote of how Mozart came to purchase it, for the funeral commemorations Mozart provided for it, and as an example of the composer's affection in general for birds. “Mozart’s Starling” Lyanda Lynn Haupt Little, Brown and Company, 277 pages, $27. The story goes that one day Mozart was walking along a street in Vienna and heard, from a pet shop, a bird "Mozart's Starling," Lyanda Lynn Haupt. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 2 years old. When naturalist and author Lyanda Lynn Haupt (@LyandaHaupt) decided to … Mozart's Starling NPR coverage of Mozart's Starling Lyanda Lynn Haupt. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more. A bird lover discovers the joys of living with a starling. One day, glimpsing a gathering of starlings outside her window, bird-watcher and naturalist Haupt (The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild, 2013, etc.) happened to recall that Mozart kept a pet starling, a choice that seemed to her extraordinary.Starlings, she reveals, are among the most “reviled” birds: invasive " Mozart's Starling is a delightful, enlightening, breathless flight through the worlds of Carmen and Star, two European starlings who join their human counterparts in exploring life and music and nature, helping to shed light on the connection between humans and birds - those of us bound to terra firma, and those who are free to soar."- Mozart's Starling [Lyanda Lynn Haupt] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young bird I received my copy of Mozart’s Starling through a goodreads giveaway. This review was originally posted on my blog. In Mozart’s Starling, Lyanda Lynn Haupt has written a fascinating book that teaches about starlings, a bird often hated in North America. We learn their history and how they were introduced to North America, and we learn about