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Genre/Form: | Congress Aufsatzsammlung Kongreß Conference papers and proceedings Congresses Actes de congrès |
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Named Person: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Material Type: | Biography, Conference publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stanley Sadie |
ISBN: | 0198164432 9780198164432 |
OCLC Number: | 31901524 |
Notes: | Based on the Royal Musical Association Mozart Bicentenary Conference, held in London, August 1991--Pref. |
Credits: | Based on the Royal Musical Association's Mozart Bicentenary Conference held in 1991. |
Description: | xvi, 512 pages : illustrations, music, facsimiles ; 26 cm |
Contents: | 1. Court, government and society in Mozart's Vienna / Derek Beales -- 2. Mozart's personality and creativity / Andrew Steptoe -- 3. Some chronological problems in Mozart: the contribution of ink-studies / John Arthur -- 4. Sketches during the process of composition: studies of K.504 and K.414 / Laszlo Somfai -- 5. Mozart's reception in Vienna, 1787-1791 / Dexter Edge -- 6. Prospects for a theory-based analysis of the instrumental music / Kofi Agawu -- 7. 'To serve the private pleasure': expression and form in the string quartets / Wye J. Allanbrook -- 8. An interpretation of musical dreams: towards a theory of the Mozart piano concerto cadenza / William Drabkin -- 9. The Salzburg symphonies: a biographical interpretation / Cliff Eisen -- 10. Learned style and the rhetoric of the sublime in the 'Jupiter' Symphony / Elaine R. Sisman -- 11. Mozart, Da Ponte and the ensemble: methods in progress? / Tim Carter. |
Responsibility: | edited by Stanley Sadie. |
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Abstract:
Written by the leading Mozart scholars of the 1990s, this volume embodies the latest thinking about Mozart: the times he lived in, the ways he composed, and the hidden meanings of his music.
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this volume of 25 essays offers a wide panorama of contemporary Mozart scholarship * Opera * ...substantial contribution to Mozart scholarship...a selection of essays based on papers given at a massive Mozart Bicentenary conference in 1991. * BBC Music * Read more...
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