Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
David Blake
J. Bradford Robinson
AUD$82.95
inc GSTDescribed in Germany as the 'most thought-provoking' book of the bicentennial year, Georg Knepler's acclaimed study of Mozart is now available in paperback. The book explores Mozart's life and works from many new perspectives, providing fresh insights into his music and the tempestuous times through which he lived. Based on a close reading of the family correspondence and a careful consideration of Mozart's entire musical output, the book sheds new light on the composer's creative psyche, his political leanings, his relation to the thoughts and currents of the Enlightenment, and the underlying basis of his musical expression.
- Written by one of the most distinguished German musicologists
- A new view of Mozart in the context of his times
- Highly acclaimed by the critics
Reviews & endorsements
'... this is a book to be read enthusiastically from cover to cover, and to return to frequently ... a notable addition to the Mozart literature.' The Observer
Product details
May 1997Paperback
9780521588232
412 pages
234 × 156 × 21 mm
0.685kg
18 b/w illus. 191 music examples
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Outline of a remarkable life
- 2. From child prodigy to genius
- 3. 'Expressing convictions and thoughts ... in notes'
- 4. Mozart's reading habits
- 5. Making things significant
- 6. The major-minor opposition
- 7. Mozart in the eyes of posterity
- 8. A turning point
- 9. Taking stock of Salzburg
- 10. The move to Vienna
- 11. Other remarkable lives
- 12. 'Mozart of the Wohltätigkeit'
- 13. Convictions and thoughts: a closer look
- 14. A traditionalist?
- 15. The question of imitation
- 16. Zerlina and the three modes of music
- 17. The 'genuine natural forms' of music
- 18. Musical portraits
- 19. How opera was dramatised by the symphony
- 20. How instrumental music was semanticized by vocal music
- 21. Conclusions from endings
- 22. Building blocks and principles of construction
- 23. 'A hostile fate - though only in Vienna'
- 24. Mozart in his day and ours.
