Title:
Experiencing Mozart : a listener's companion / David Schroeder.
Author:
Schroeder, David P., 1946- author.
Publication Information:
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
©2013
Call Number:
ML410.M9 S377 2015
Abstract:
In this critical study, music historian David Schroeder illustrates how the issues Mozart cared about so deeply remain important to modern listeners. Mozart's views on politics, women, authority, and religion are provided, along with analyses of selected symphonies and sonatas, concertos and keyboard works, and operas. Schroeder draws on his knowledge of Mozart's personal and professional life, late 18th-century European culture and society, and musicianship to guide listeners to the art of listening to Mozart.--From publisher description.
Edition:
First Rowman & Littlefield paperback edition.
ISBN:
9781442249196
Series:
The listener's companion
Listener's companion.
Physical Description:
xix, 215 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Marching bands, church music, and escape from Salzburg -- The shadow of Haydn : symphonies -- The friendship with Haydn : chamber music -- In the realm of Joseph II : The Abduction from the Seraglio -- Virtuoso performer : concertos -- Salons : solo keyboard works -- Revolutionary thoughts about women and power : Figaro and Così -- Carnival versus Lent : Don Giovanni -- A fellow prankster and a strange commission : The Magic Flute and Requiem -- Coda : From then until now.
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