The Norms of Taste and the Music of Mozart

Name: The Norms of Taste and the Music of Mozart
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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By: Katherine Walker

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Hardcover | 20 October 2026 | Edition Number 1

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160 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 1.12

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The Norms of Taste and the Music of Mozart uncovers what contemporaries meant when they praised composers like Mozart for their "good taste" and, in the process, illustrates how judgments of taste were intertwined with developments in the social, cultural, and political arenas.

Taking as its starting point Haydnâs purported reference to Mozart Geschmack und Compositionwissenschaft, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the shifting connotations of taste in eighteenth-century European music. It bridges a gap in music scholarship by new perspectives on how music, philosophy, literature, and politics intersected through the language of taste. The discourse of musical taste opened pathways from the individual to the collective and framed pressing debates about the sources and meanings of human flourishing. As the author argues, the century of taste denotes a period in which art and aesthetics were bound up with moral philosophy; when artistic, ethical, and social aspects of life merged and overlapped, bringing good taste and goodness into alignment.

Offering insights into the history of music and aesthetics as well as the work of Mozart, this book presents a study filled with new perspectives for musicologists and scholars of eighteenth-century culture.

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