The Age of Mozart and Beethoven

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Paperback | 30 April 1984

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Giorgio Pestelli examines one of the crucial periods of musical history, the transition from the middle of the eighteenth century to the era of Beethoven. This was a time of great cultural, technical and social changes. The free professional composer, in direct contact with the wide musical public, replaced the dependent court musician. Instrumental music became the centre of new developments, and sonata form, the cornerstone of nineteenth-century musical architecture, dominated its language. With the decrease in private patronage came the birth of the public concert; there was a vast increase in music publishing, and important developments were made in instrumental techniques, the dominant feature being the rise of the piano. Standing out from this common background are three major figures: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, whose specific characteristics are discussed in detail, along with their links with many other musicians. Dr Pestelli also emphasizes general lines of development: the galant style, the passion for antiquity and the curiosity for the exotic, the debate over 'literary' opera, the Sturm and Drang movement, the influence of the French Revolution and the Restoration, and the origins of romanticism. The importance of the book is that the music is viewed against the background of social, political, philosophical and cultural trends of the time, rather than relying on detailed analyses of specific works.

The series Storia della Musica is published in twelve volumes under the auspices of the Societa Italiana di Musicologia. The original Italian edition is designed to remedy the dearth of a satisfactory comprehensive history of music in Italian, but the many fresh insights itcontains make it of interest and significance to a far wider readership. The four volumes to be published in translation by Cambridge University Press are made available for the first time to the English-speaking student. Each discusses the music and musicians of a separa

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"In every respect it is a brilliant achievement." Times Literary Supplement "...Pestelli has managed to bring ideas back into our picture of the classical period without falling into distortion or oversimplification...admirable..." Atlantic Monthly

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Author's note	p. viii
Translator's note	p. x
Instrumental Music
The geography of music in the middle of the eighteenth century	p. 1
The galant style and the new sensibility	p. 6
Sonata form as a basic form	p. 12
The Italian harpsichordists	p. 18
C. P. E. Bach and the German harpsichordists	p. 22
Schobert in Paris	p. 27
Sammartini, Stamitz and the origins of the modern symphony	p. 29
Johann Christian Bach: London and his meeting with Mozart	p. 37
Vocal Music
Opera seria and opera buffa	p. 41
The European success of Italian comic opera	p. 45
The rediscovery of classical antiquity	p. 49
The discovery of the fabulous East	p. 52
The 'literary' opera	p. 56
Music and language; the melodrama	p. 59
Opera seria in the second half of the eighteenth century	p. 64
Gluck in Vienna	p. 71
Gluck in Paris	p. 77
Gluck's influence	p. 79
Italian comic opera in the second half of the eighteenth century	p. 86
Other national forms of comic opera	p. 93
Sacred music	p. 96
Haydn and Mozart
Sturm und Drang and music	p. 101
The peak of sonata form	p. 105
Franz Joseph Haydn	p. 111
A model life	p. 112
Half a century of music	p. 117
Other paths of the sonata style; Dittersdorf and Boccherini	p. 127
Mozart	p. 136
A variety of styles	p. 136
Mozart's journeys	p. 138
An independent profession	p. 142
The music up to the departure from Salzburg	p. 148
The Viennese decade	p. 153
Beethoven
The transformation in musical life at the end of the eighteenth century	p. 167
Music and the French Revolution	p. 175
The origins of romanticism	p. 181
Musical theatre in Europe up to Rossini. French opera; Cherubini, Spontini and Mayr	p. 185
The new instrumental schools	p. 202
Beethoven	p. 217
Beethoven's character	p. 218
Beethoven's language	p. 225
The music up to the French invasion of Vienna (1809)	p. 231
Beethoven and early romanticism	p. 240
The late works	p. 244
New paths in the age of the Restoration	p. 253
Readings
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach	p. 261
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	p. 264
The orchestra at Mannheim	p. 266
Francesco Algarotti	p. 268
In praise of Metastasio	p. 271
Christoph Willibald Gluck	p. 274
A description of sonata form	p. 275
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	p. 278
A hymn for 14 July	p. 281
Ludwig van Beethoven	p. 282
Ernst Theodor Amadeus (Wilhelm) Hoffmann	p. 287
Notes	p. 293
Bibliography	p. 301
Index	p. 312
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