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Published: 1st May 1995
ISBN: 9780521476614
Number Of Pages: 264
On Mozart is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would have us believe. He was certainly a genius--in that, the legends are correct, and the evidence abounds--but he was also a working composer in a society crowded with other working composers, and he had to make a living at his craft to maintain the style of living to which he and his family had become accustomed. By observing a realistic and human genius, the collection of essays portrays a more complex individual than the divinely inspired Mozart of myth, who took his notes directly from God.
'This collection illustrates the value of disciplinary cross-fertilization...' Times Literary Supplement
| Introduction | |
| Approaching Mozart Denis Donoghe | |
| How extraordinary was Mozartï½ | |
| Mozart and the transformational imperative | |
| On the economics of musical composition in Mozart's Vienna | |
| Mozart as a working stiff | |
| The challenge of blank paper: Mozart the composer | |
| Marianne Mozart Carissima Sorella Mia | |
| Mozart's concertos and their audience | |
| Mozart's tunes and the comedy of closure | |
| Don Giovanni against the Baroque or the culture punished | |
| Nineteenth-century Mozart: The Fin-de-Siecle Mozart revival | |
| The abduction from the theater: Mozart opera on film | |
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ISBN: 9780521476614
ISBN-10: 0521476615
Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 264
Published: 1st May 1995
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.94 x 15.32
x 1.88
Weight (kg): 0.36
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