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	The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (audio book on CD with music) A musical biography. This is the poignant and compelling story of perhaps the most naturally gifted musical genius of all time. With many examples of his music, it tells of Mozart's extraordinary childhood travelling the courts of Europe, and of how, after a brief period of fame in Vienna, his fortunes declined until his early death and last resting-place in a pauper's grave. Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks Author: Perry Keenlyside Narrator: Heathcote Williams et al. ISBN: 9626341440 Published: 1997 Format: 3 CDs, running time: 3 hours 39 minutes Price: £13.99


	Sigmund Freud - An Outline of Psychoanalysis No discovery has done more to shape modernity than Freud's theory of the unconscious and the part it plays in determining the course of our conscious lives. In psychoanalysis, Freud created a therapeutic tool by which the deepest anguish and desires of the psyche could be revealed. Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia; between the ages of four and eighty-two his home was in Vienna: in 1938 Hitler's invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London, where he died in the following year. Publisher: Penguin Classic ISBN: 0141184043 Published: 2003 Paperback: 272 pages Price: £10.99


	Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2004 A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, The Piano Teacher is one of the greatest contemporary European novels. Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. But by night she trawls the porn shows of Vienna while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds music student and ladies' man, Walter Klemmer. With Walter as her student, Erika spirals out of control, consumed by the ecstacy of self-destruction. First published in 1983, The Piano Teacher is the masterpiece of Elfriede Jelinek, the leading Austrian writer of her generation. Directed by Michael Haneke, the film won three major prizes at the Cannes 2000 Festival including best actor for Benoit Magimel and best actress for Isabelle Huppert. Publisher: Serpent's Tail ISBN: 1852427507 Published: 2001 Paperback: 288 pages Price: £7.99


	Klimt Gustav Klimt's art is thoroughly fin de siècle. It expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy which Klimt and his contemporaries found - or hoped to find - in beauty was constantly overshadowed by death. And death therefore plays an important role in Klimt's art. Klimt's fame, however, rests on his reputation as one of the greatest erotic painters and graphic artists of his times. Particularly his drawings, which have been widely admired for their artistic excellence, are dominated by the erotic portrayal of women. Klimt saw the world 'in female form'. Author: Gilles Néret Publisher: Taschen ISBN: 382285980X Published: 2000 Softcover: 185 x 230 mm, 96 pages Price: £4.99


	European Folk Art Designs Traditional motifs from Austria, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Switzerland and other European countries include scores of charming designs incorporating florals, wildlife and human figures in folk costumes. Publisher: Dover Publications Author: Marty Noble ISBN: 0486437574 Published: 2004 Paperback: 64 pages, 210 x 279 mm Price: £9.95

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