Mozart in Prague : essays on performance, patronage, sources, and reception / Proceedings of the Mozart Society of America / Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Conference in Prague, 9-13 June 2009 ; edited by Kathryn Libin.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Libin, Kathryn L., editor.

Mozart Society of America, issuing body.

Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, issuing body.

Etnologický ústav AV ČR v Praze, issuing body.

Conference Name:

Mozart in Prague (2009 : Prague, Czech Republic)

Series:

Congress Reports.

Congress Reports

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Essays.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

470 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Prague : Mozart Society Of America, 2016.

Contents:

Music and patronage in Central Europe. A paternal patronage in Dresden : Count Heinrich von Brühl and Gottlob Harrer / R. Todd Rober ; Antonio Salieri's Requiem Mass : the Moravian connection / Jane Schatkin Hettrick ; Mozart reception in early 19th-centruy Bohemia as revealed by Johann Neopmuk Chotek's diary / Rita Steblin

Musical practice in Bohemia. Mozart's Prague copyists : the copying workshop of Anton Grams / Milada Jonášová ; American Mozart scholarship as seen from Prague / Tomislav Volek ; Elements of Enlightenment in Osmin's rage : Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Prague / Jean Marie Hellner ; Piano music by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart arranged for Harmoniemusik from the Archives in the Kroměříž Palace / Peter Heckl ; Losses and gains : Mozart's sacred works in Bohemian monastic and parish music collections in his time and in the 19th century / Michaela Freemanová

Mozart's singers In defense of Josepha Duschek (and Mozart) : Patronage, friendship, and evidence / Bruce Alan Brown ; "aber nach geendigter Oper mit Vergnügen" : Mozart's arias for Mme Duschek / Paul Corneilson ; A Bohemian composers meets a Mozart singer : Koželuh's Rondò for Adriana Ferrarese / John A. Rice

Mozart and theatre. The Italian reception of Benda's Ariadne auf Naxos and Medea : fascination and compromise / Lucio Tufano ; Mozart's difficulties with the opera overture or, "For Heaven's sake, begin it with a cavalry march!" / Bertil van Boer ; Preaching (German) morals in Vienna : the case of Mozart and Umlauf / Martin Nedbal

Guardasoni and Italian opea. Italian opera in Prague, Dresden, and elsewhere : the impresario Giuseppe Bustelli / Pierluigi Petrobelli ; From Venice to Warsaw : Zenobia di Palmira by Sertor and Anfossi performed by Guardasoni's troupe (1791) / Anna Ryszka-Komarnicka

Don Giovanni singers Of theologians and Libertines : an apology for theater from the Austrian Enlightenment / Edmund J. Goehring ; "Die trefflich gewählten Instrumente" : orchestrating Don Giovanni's defeat / Simon P. Keefe ; Formenlehre goes to the opera : examples from Don Giovanni / Nathan Martin ; Laughing with Casanova : Luigi Bassi and the original production of Don Giovanni / Magnus Tessing Schneider ; One manuscript, two cities : the story of the Prague Conservatory Don Giovanni score / Ian Woodfield

Abstracts

Author biographies

Index of persons

Index of Mozart's works.

Notes:

This publication was supported by the Mozart Society of America, the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, and The Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (RVO 68378076).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

21 articles from the conference held in Prague, June 2009.

ISBN:

8088081068

9788088081067

OCLC:

980241909

Publisher Number:

9788088081067