Life of Mozart
3 Volume Set
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- Author: Otto Jahn
- Translator: Pauline D. Townsend
- Date Published: September 2013
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- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108064859
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In terms of musical composition, all but the first five of his thirty-five years were astoundingly productive for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91). A stream of glorious symphonies, piano concertos, chamber music, operas and the sublime but unfinished Requiem poured from his pen. German philologist and archaeologist Otto Jahn (1813–69) was inspired to write a scholarly biography of Mozart following a conversation at Mendelssohn's funeral in 1847. He immersed himself in intensive research on the composer and his music, publishing the first edition of this landmark work in four volumes between 1856 and 1859. A second edition followed in 1867, incorporating new material and making use of Köchel's 1862 catalogue of Mozart's works. It is from this edition that Pauline D. Townsend made her three-volume English translation, first published in 1882. Volume 1 covers Mozart's life to 1778, Volume 2 considers Mozart the man, and Volume 3 discusses his final years and works.
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- Date Published: September 2013
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108064859
- length: 1430 pages
- dimensions: 140 x 217 x 83 mm
- weight: 1.9kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus.
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface to the English edition
Introduction
Introduction to the second edition
Translator's note
1. Childhood
2. Early journeys
3. Study in Salzburg
4. The first opera in Vienna
5. The Italian tour
6. Works in Germany
7. Opera seria
8. Mozart's early operas
9. Oratorio
10. Opera buffa
11. Mozart's Re pastore
12. Songs
13. Church music
14. Instrumental music
15. Early manhood
16. Munich and Augsburg
17. Mannheim. Volume 2:
18. French opera
19. Paris, 1778
20. The return home
21. Court service in Salzburg
22. Idomeneo
23. Release
24. First attempts in Vienna
25. Die Entführung aus dem Serail
26. Courtship
27. Married life
28. Mozart's family and friends
29. Social intercourse
30. Van Swieten and classical music
31. Mozart and Freemasonry
32. Mozart as an artist
33. Mozart's pianoforte music. Volume 3:
34. Mozart's instrumental music
35. Mozart as an opera composer
36. Le nozze di Figaro
37. Mozart in Prague
38. Don Giovanni
39. Official and occasional works
40. A professional tour
41. Così fan tutte
42. Labour and poverty
43. Die Zauberflöte
44. Illness and death
45. The Requiem
46. At the grave
Appendices 1-4
Index
Fac-similes.
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