Exploring the mystery of Mozart’s music, the genius of Marie Anne, and the research behind a groundbreaking new documentary.

Tellwell Publishing is pleased to highlight Dr. Martin W. B. Jarvis, a scholar who has spent much of his career challenging long-held assumptions about the great composers. His newest novel builds on years of forensic handwriting research and offers a fresh look at Mozart’s life, his music, and the mystery surrounding his final days. The book was also selected for the Publishers Newswire Books to Bookmark list for its unique approach and lively investigation into music history.

Dr. Jarvis’s research is now reaching an even wider audience through the upcoming Sky Originals documentary Mozart’s Sister. The film explores the life and talent of Marie Anne Mozart, who performed with her brother as a child and, as Jarvis argues, may have been the creative voice behind several works traditionally credited to Wolfgang. His involvement in the documentary grew out of work that began when he was only fourteen and studying Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 2. Even then he sensed something unusual in the score, a curiosity that led him to decades of study and the discovery of distinct handwriting traits on key manuscripts.

In the documentary, Jarvis explains how signatures like “W. A. Mozart” differ from those written as “Amadeo Wolfgango Mozart,” and how this evidence points to Marie Anne composing under a different name. The film also highlights the broader history of women in composition, a subject Jarvis has explored before in his research on Anna Magdalena Bach. That earlier work became the book Written by Mrs Bach and later a BBC documentary, which brought even more attention to the hidden role of female composers.