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Mozart's Starling

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An NPR Best Book of the Year

The unlikely and remarkable bond between one of history's most cherished composers and one of earth's most common birds.

"A heady hybrid of science, history, how-to and memoir" —Los Angeles Times


On May 27, 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, Mozart bought him and took him home to...