On Mozart

Contents

• Introduction;
• 1. Approaching Mozart Denis Donoghe;
• 2. How extraordinary was Mozart? Howard Gardner;
• 3. Mozart and the transformational imperative David Henry Feldman;
• 4. On the economics of musical composition in Mozart's Vienna William J. Baumol and Hilda Baumol;
• 5. Mozart as a working stiff Neal Zaslow;
• 6. The challenge of blank paper: Mozart the composer Christoph Wolff;
• 7. Marianne Mozart Carissima Sorella Mia Maynard Solomon;
• 8. Mozart's concertos and their audience Joseph Kerman;
• 9. Mozart's tunes and the comedy of closure Wye J. Allanbrook;
• 10. Don Giovanni against the Baroque or the culture punished Michael P. Steinberg;
• 11. Nineteenth-century Mozart: the fin-de-siecle Mozart revival Leon Botstein;
• 12. The abduction from the theater: Mozart opera on film Stanley Kauffmann.