| Description |
xvii, 374 pages : illustrations, portraits, plates, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-367) and index. |
| Summary |
A critical study of Mozart's life and works. Knepler takes a semiotic approach, explaining the immediacy and universal appeal of Mozart's music. |
| Contents |
Foreword / David Blake -- 1. Outline of a remarkable life -- 2. From child prodigy to genius -- 3. 'Expressing convictions and thoughts ... in notes' -- 4. Mozart's reading habits -- 5. Making things significant -- 6. Major-minor opposition -- 7. Mozart in the eyes of posterity -- 8. A turning point -- 9. Taking stock of Salzburg -- 10. Move to Vienna -- 11. Other remarkable lives -- 12. 'Mozart of the Wohltatigkeit' -- 13. Convictions and thoughts: a closer look -- 14. A traditionalist? -- 15. Question of imitation -- 16. Zerlina and the three modes of music -- 17. The 'genuine natural forms' of music -- 18. Musical portraits -- 19. How opera was dramatized by the symphony -- 20. How instrumental music was semanticized by vocal music -- 21. Conclusions from endings -- 22. Building blocks and principles of construction -- 23. 'A hostile fate -- though only in Vienna' -- 24. Mozart in his day and ours -- 1. Excerpts from: Melchior Grimm: 'Poeme lyrique' [opera] -- 2. Excerpts from: Introduction to the libretto of G.B. Casti's Il re Teodoro in Venezia -- 3. Excerpts from: Beaumarchais: Preface to Le Mariage de Figaro -- 4. Excerpts from: Johann Pezzl: Faustin -- 5. Excerpts from: Joseph Franz Ratschky: Address on Philanthropy -- 6. Excerpts from: Johann Pezzl: Biographical Obituary of Risbeck. |
| Language |
English text. |
| Subject |
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Composers -- Austria -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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Austria. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Container of (expression): Knepler, Georg.
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. English.
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| ISBN |
0521419727 (hardback) |
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9780521419727 (hardback) |
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