Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
- Author: Knepler, Georg
- Translator: Robinson, J. Bradford
this is a book to be read enthusiastically from cover to cover, and to return to frequently ... a notable addition to the Mozart literature —
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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 Wohltatigkeit';
- 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.