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Mozart's Requiem : reception, work, completion / Simon P. Keefe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keefe, Simon P., 1968- author.
- Series:
- Music in context.
- Music in context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Requiem--K. 626--D minor.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presenting a fresh interpretation of Mozart's Requiem, Simon P. Keefe redresses a longstanding scholarly imbalance whereby narrow consideration of the text of this famously incomplete work has taken precedence over consideration of context in the widest sense. Keefe details the reception of the Requiem legend in general writings, fiction, theatre and film, as well as discussing criticism, scholarship and performance. Evaluation of Mozart's work on the Requiem turns attention to the autograph score, the document in which myths and musical realities collide. Franz Xaver Süssmayr's completion (1791-2) is also re-appraised and the ideological underpinnings of modern completions assessed. Overall, the book affirms that Mozart's Requiem, fascinating for interacting musical, biographical, circumstantial and psychological reasons, cannot be fully appreciated by studying only Mozart's activities. Broad-ranging hermeneutic approaches to the work, moreover, supersede traditionally limited discursive confines.
- Contents:
- The Requiem legend in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Criticism and scholarship from 1800 to the present day
- The Requiem in performance
- Mozart's work on the Requiem: sounds and strategies
- After Mozart: the Requiem completion, 1791-1792
- Modern completions of the Requiem
- Epilogue: a Requiem for the future.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-22375-X
- 1-139-53954-X
- 1-283-52183-0
- 9786613834287
- 1-139-52670-7
- 1-139-52550-6
- 1-139-02702-6
- 1-139-53136-0
- 1-139-53017-8
- 1-139-52789-4
- OCLC:
- 804664820
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