txtCommentary1=The standard scholarly treatment of Mozart\'92s life and music is still the two-volume study (plus a massive, separate index) in German by Hermann Abert, {\i W.A. Mozart} (Leipzig, 1919; reprinted most recently in 1955 [though the Index did not appear until 1966]). Because it would require a considerable amount of updating, no one has thought it sufficiently
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txtCommentary2=\par\par\par\par\par\par worthwhile to translate Abert into English. Abert\'92s approach is thorough, commonsensical, and\'97unlike many nineteenth-century biographies\'97centers on the music.{\fs24\uldb \'80}{\v next}