Mozart / Julian Rushton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rushton, Julian, author.

Series:

Master musicians series.

The Master Musicians

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

Composers--Austria--Biography.

Composers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy--he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills--he wrote as an adult some of the finest music in the entire Europeantradition. Julian Rushton offers a concise and up-to-date biography of this musical genius, combining a well-researched life of the composer with an introduction to the works--symphonic, chamber, sacred, and theatrical--of one of the few musicians in history to have written undisputed masterpieces acrossevery

Contents:

Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Pitch Notation; 1 Salzburg and the Grand Tour: 1756-1769; 2 Works by an 'almost supernatural talent'; 3 Italy and Salzburg: 1769-1773; 4 Opera Seria: 'fitting the clothes to the figure'; 5 Salzburg: 1773-1777; 6 Sacred Music: 'I have thoroughly acquainted myself with that style since my youth'; 7 Mannheim and Paris: 1777-1779; 8 The 'Classical Style': Mozart and the Keyboard; 9 Salzburg and Munich: 1779-1781; 10 Orchestral Music: 'the glorious effect of a symphony with flutes, oboes, and clarinets'; 11 Vienna: 1781-1785

12 Singspiel: 'music must never offend the ear'13 'Land of the Clavier': Piano Concertos and Piano Chamber Music; 14 Vienna and Prague: 1785-1788; 15 Chamber Music: 'the greatest composer I know'; 16 Opera Buffa: 'most important is that it must be really comic'; 17 The Last Years: 1788-1791; 18 The Last Works: 'a rich possession, but even fairer hopes'; 19 Aftermath: ' . . . de morte transire ad vitam'; Appendices; A. Calendar; B. List of Works; C. Personalia; D. Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-988467-6

0-19-538825-9

0-19-972691-4

1-4294-2033-2

OCLC:

870243409