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Mozart : the early years, 1756-1781 / Stanley Sadie ; foreword by Neal Zaslaw.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sadie, Stanley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.
- Composers--Austria--Biography.
- Composers.
- Austria.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 644 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [2006]
- Summary:
- Renowned music historian Stanley Sadie discusses all aspects of the composer's life and music, relating them to the social, economic, cultural, and musical environments in which he worked.
- Contents:
- Salzburg and the Mozart family
- Childhood and first travels
- The road to Paris
- Playing for the English court
- The homeward journey
- The eleven-year-old in Salzburg
- Disappointment in Vienna
- Salzburg, 1769
- Italy without Nannerl
- Mitridate at Milan
- Success in Milan
- Working for the prince-archbishop
- Vain hopes in Vienna
- A stable period at the Salzburg court
- Operas, sonatas, serenades, concertos
- Frustration
- Mannheim
- 'Off with you to Paris!'
- Salzburg concertmaster-organist
- Idomeneo at Munich.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-601) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0393061124
- OCLC:
- 60796200
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