The Cambridge Companion to Mozart
Part of Cambridge Companions to Music
- Editor: Simon P. Keefe, Queen's University Belfast
- Date Published: June 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521001922
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Bridging the gap between scholarly and popular images of Mozart, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of all of his important works; the reception of his music since his death; the contexts which inform his work and his significance as a performer. It paints a rounded yet focused picture of one of the most revered artists of all time and enhances readers' appreciation of his extraordinary output.
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"The Cambridge Companion to Mozart creates a multifaceted portrait of the composer's career and music that certainly will prove stimulating to students, scholars, and general music lovers. Editor Keefe should be applauded for assembling such a well-rounded collection of essays." NOTES
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- Date Published: June 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521001922
- length: 314 pages
- dimensions: 248 x 175 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- contains: 3 b/w illus. 8 tables 40 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Simon P. Keefe
Chronology of Mozart's Life and Works Simon P. Keefe
Part I. Mozart in Context:
1. Mozart and Salzburg Cliff Eisen
2. Mozart in Vienna Dorothea Link
3. Mozart's compositional methods: writing for his singers Ian Woodfield
4. Mozart and late eighteenth-century aesthetics David Schroeder
Part II. The Works:
5. The keyboard music W. Dean Sutcliffe
6. The concertos in aesthetic and stylistic context Simon P. Keefe
7. The orchestral music Simon P. Keefe
8. Mozart's chamber music Cliff Eisen
9. Mozart as a vocal composer Paul Corneilson
10. The opere buffe Edmund J. Goehring
11. Mozart and opera seria Julian Rushton
12. Mozart's German operas David J. Buch
Part III. Reception:
13. Mozart in the nineteenth century John Daverio
14. Mozart and the twentieth century Jan Smaczny
15. The Evolution of Mozartian biography William Stafford
Part IV. Performance:
16. Mozart the performer Katalin Komlós
17. Performance practice in the music of Mozart Robert D. Levin.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- A Composer's Style and Music: Mozart
- Haydn & Mozart
- Music of Mozart
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