Beschreibung:

XXII; 839 S.; Illustr.; 24 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Pappband m. OUmschl.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex.; Umschlag stw. leicht berieben. - Englisch. - This major work places Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. Even as he delves into philosophic and aesthetic questions, Robert Gutman keeps in sight, clearly and firmly, the composer and his works. He discusses the major genres in which Mozart worked-chamber music; liturgical, theater, and keyboard compositions; concerto; symphony; opera; and oratorio. All of these riches unfold within the framework of the composer's brief but remarkable life. With Gutman's informed and sensitive handling, Mozart emerges in a light more luminous than in previous renderings. The composer was an affectionate and generous man to family and friends, self-deprecating, witty, winsome, but also an austere moralist, incisive and purposeful. Mozart is both an extraordinary portrait of a man in his time and a brilliant distillation of musical thought. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Introduction ---- Salzburg and Empire; Prince and Burgher; Leopold Mozart ---- Sapere aude; Liberal Sensibilities and Irreconcilable Tendencies ---- The Mask and the Face: Ambivalence without Resolution ---- Salzburg's Handsomest Pair; Strategic Blunders and Patrician Ways ---- The Prodigy's Earliest Years ---- The First Visit to Vienna ---- Stratagems and Treacheries: A Glance Back ---- The Mozarts' Grand Tour. The First Phase: Bavaria, Swabia, Wurttemberg, the Palatinate, and the Rhineland ---- A Season of Fermentation and Redress ---- Courtly Opera and Its Decline; a New Aesthetic and Decorum ---- (u.v.a.) ISBN 0436274965