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Mozart in context / edited by Simon P. Keefe.

Keefe, Simon P., 1968- editor.
2019
ML410.M9 M7125 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
Mozart in context / edited by Simon P. Keefe.
ISBN
9781107181052 (hardcover)
1107181054 (hardcover)
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 333 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Call Number
ML410.M9 M7125 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
780.92
Summary
The vibrant intellectual, social and political climate of mid eighteenth-century Europe presented opportunities and challenges for artists and musicians alike. This book focuses on Mozart the man and musician as he responds to different aspects of that world. It reveals his views on music, aesthetics and other matters; on places in Austria and across Europe that shaped his life; on career contexts and environments, including patronage, activities as an impresario, publishing, theatrical culture and financial matters; on engagement with performers and performance, focusing on Mozart's experiences as a practicing musician; and on reception and legacy from his own time through to the present day. Probing diverse Mozartian contexts in a variety of ways, the contributors reflect the vitality of existing scholarship and point towards areas primed for further study. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of late eighteenth-century music and for Mozart aficionados and music-lovers in general.
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The vibrant intellectual, social and political climate of mid eighteenth-century Europe presented opportunities and challenges for artists and musicians alike. This book focuses on Mozart the man and musician as he responds to different aspects of that world. It reveals his views on music, aesthetics and other matters; on places in Austria and across Europe that shaped his life; on career contexts and environments, including patronage, activities as an impresario, publishing, theatrical culture and financial matters; on engagement with performers and performance, focusing on Mozart's experiences as a practicing musician; and on reception and legacy from his own time through to the present day. Probing diverse Mozartian contexts in a variety of ways, the contributors reflect the vitality of existing scholarship and point towards areas primed for further study. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of late eighteenth-century music and for Mozart aficionados and music-lovers in general.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added Author
Keefe, Simon P., 1968- editor.
Series
Composers in context.
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Part I, Personality, work, worldview: Personal relationships / Simon P. Keefe. Learning and teaching / Adeline Mueller. Compositional methods / Ulrich Leisinger. Religious views / David Wyn Jones. Aesthetic views / Edmund J. Goehring. Mozart and contemporary composers / Bertil van Boer. Mozart and Freemasonry / Jessica Waldoff. Mozart iconography / Christoph Grosspietsch
Part II, Towns, citites, countries: Salzburg / Viktor Töpelmann. Vienna / David Wyn Jones. Germany / Paul Corneilson. Italy / Sergio Durante. France / Jean-Paul C. Montagnier. Prague / Kathryn L. Libin. London / Hannah M. Templeton
Part III, Career contexts and environments: Patronage / Paul Corneilson. Mozart as Impresario / Martin Harlow. Publishing / Rupert Ridgewell. Theatrical life in Mozart's Vienna / Lisa de Alwis. Mozart and finances / Jessica Waldoff
Part IV, Performers and performance: Instrumentalists in Salzburg and abroad / Ulrich Leisinger. Instruments and instrumentalists in Vienna / Martin Harlow. The opera singers in Vienna / Dorothea Link. Mozart's Italian and German singers / Paul Corneilson. Mozart the performer-composer / Simon P. Keefe. Instrumental performance practice / John Irving. Vocal performance practice / Sarah Potter
Part V, Reception and legacy: Reactions to Mozart in his lifetime / Ian Woodfield. Biographical and critical traditions / Simon P. Keefe. Mozart in theory and analysis / Stephen Rumph. The Köchel catalogue / Ulrich Leisinger. Mozart's influence on nineteenth-century composers / Edward Klorman. Mythmaking / Adeline Mueller. Editing Mozart / Rupert Ridgewell. Mozart on record / John Irving.

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