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Mozart's Last Aria

Author : Matt Rees
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2011-05-01
ISBN 10 : 9780857894571
Pages : 300 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (894 downloads)

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Download Mozart's Last Aria PDF Format Full Free by Matt Rees and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1791 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is enlightenment Vienna's brightest star. Master of the city's music halls and devoted member of the Austrian Freemason's guild, he stands at the heart of an electric mix of art and music, philosophy and science, politics and intrigue. Six weeks ago, the great composer told his wife he had been poisoned. Yesterday, he died. The city is buzzing with rumours of infidelity, bankruptcy and murder. But Wolfgang's sister Nannerl, returned from the provinces to investigate, will not believe base gossip. Who but a madman would poison such a genius? Yet as she looks closely at what her brother left behind - a handwritten score, a scrap of paper from his journal - Nannerl finds traces of something sinister: the threads of a masonic conspiracy that reach from the gilded ballrooms of Viennese society to the faceless offices of the Prussian secret service. Only when watching Wolfgang's bewitching opera, The Magic Flute, does Nannerl truly understand her beloved brother once again. For, encoded in his final arias, is a subtly crafted blueprint for a radical new tomorrow. Mozart hoped to change his future. Instead he sealed his fate.

Mozart

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9780195182644
Pages : 306 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (182 downloads)

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Download Mozart PDF Format Full Free by Julian Rushton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise biography of a musical genius combines a well-researched life of Mozard the composer with an introduction to his many works, in a study of one of the few musicians in history to have written undisputed masterpieces in every genre of his time.

Mozart's Così Fan Tutte

Author : Ian Woodfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 9781843834069
Pages : 242 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (834 downloads)

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Download Mozart's Così Fan Tutte PDF Format Full Free by Ian Woodfield and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new approach proposes answers to many of the opera's unresolved questions.

Recognition in Mozart's Operas

Author : Jessica Waldoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-04-13
ISBN 10 : 0195348532
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (195 downloads)

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Download Recognition in Mozart's Operas PDF Format Full Free by Jessica Waldoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme. Though a standard feature of opera, recognition--a moment of new awareness that brings about a crucial reversal in the action--has been largely neglected in opera studies. In Recognition in Mozart's Operas, musicologist Jessica Waldoff draws on a broad base of critical thought on recognition from Aristotle to Terence Cave to explore the essential role it plays in Mozart's operas. The result is a fresh approach to the familiar question of opera as drama and a persuasive new reading of Mozart's operas.

W. A. Mozart: Idomeneo

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-06-10
ISBN 10 : 0521437415
Pages : 187 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (521 downloads)

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Download W. A. Mozart: Idomeneo PDF Format Full Free by Julian Rushton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-06-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide charts the genesis of Idomeneo, based on the composer's own accounts in his letters home.

Mozart

Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-19
ISBN 10 : 0198165293
Pages : 644 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (198 downloads)

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Download Mozart PDF Format Full Free by Stanley Sadie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author considers how Mozart's extraordinary experience as a child prodigy coloured his approach to the world and his contemporaries. Sadie discusses individual works in sequence and relates them to the events of Mozart's life, and to the social, economic, cultural and musical environments in which he worked. --book jacket.

Mozart

Author : Alan Tyson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1987
ISBN 10 : 0674588312
Pages : 381 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (674 downloads)

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Download Mozart PDF Format Full Free by Alan Tyson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results and implications of Tyson's work on Mozart have had a profound impact on virtually every aspect of research on this composer. This book assembles his major articles, previously scattered through magazines, journals, and festschrifts, plus two unpublished pieces, into a treasure trove for musicologists and music lovers.

Mozart in Vienna

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-21
ISBN 10 : 9781108394109
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (394 downloads)

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Download Mozart in Vienna PDF Format Full Free by Simon P. Keefe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mozart's greatest works were written in Vienna in the decade before his death (1781–1791). This biography focuses on Mozart's dual roles as a performer and composer and reveals how his compositional processes are affected by performance-related concerns. It traces consistencies and changes in Mozart's professional persona and his modus operandi and sheds light on other prominent musicians, audience expectations, publishing, and concert and dramatic practices and traditions. Giving particular prominence to primary sources, Simon P. Keefe offers new biographical and critical perspectives on the man and his music, highlighting his extraordinary ability to engage with the competing demands of singers and instrumentalists, publishing and public performance, and concerts and dramatic productions in the course of a hectic, diverse and financially uncertain freelance career. This comprehensive and accessible volume is essential for Mozart lovers and scholars alike, exploring his Viennese masterpieces and the people and environments that shaped them.

The Cambridge Companion to Mozart

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-05-22
ISBN 10 : 9781139826648
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (826 downloads)

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Download The Cambridge Companion to Mozart PDF Format Full Free by Simon P. Keefe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Mozart paints a rounded yet focussed picture of one of the most revered artists of all time. Bringing the most recent scholarship into the public arena, this volume bridges the gap between scholarly and popular images of the composer, enhancing the readers' appreciation of Mozart and his extraordinary output, regardless of their prior knowledge of the music. Part I situates Mozart in the context of late eighteenth-century musical environments and aesthetic trends that played a pivotal role in his artistic development and examines his methods of composition. Part II surveys Mozart's works in all of the genres in which he excelled and Part III looks at the reception of the composer and his music since his death. Part IV offers insight into Mozart's career as a performer as well as theoretical and practical perspectives on historically informed performances of his music.

Mozart and His Operas

Author : David Cairns
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 0520228987
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (52 downloads)

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Download Mozart and His Operas PDF Format Full Free by David Cairns and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted music critic weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole.

Mozart

Author : Robert Gutman
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-08-31
ISBN 10 : 9781446477076
Pages : 864 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (477 downloads)

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Download Mozart PDF Format Full Free by Robert Gutman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mozart: A Cultural Biography is a fresh interpretation of a musical genius, meticulously researched and gracefully written. It 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, theatre, 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.

Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart

Author : Frederick Neumann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-15
ISBN 10 : 9780691194684
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (194 downloads)

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Download Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart PDF Format Full Free by Frederick Neumann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sequel to Frederick Neumann's Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music, With Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach (Princeton, 1978). In the present volume, the first work on this subject for Mozart's music, the author continues his important contributions to the search for historically correct performance practices, and to the liberation of the performer from improperly conceived and overly restrictive interpretation of musical scores. The first part of this book attempts to free ornamentation in Mozart from rigorism that has resulted from confusing the pure abstraction of ornament tables with concrete musical situations. The second part deals with pitches that were not written in the score yet often intended to be added when Mozart left "white spots" in his notation. These additions range from single notes to lengthy cadenzas. The problem addressed is the question of where such additions are possible or necessary and how they might best be designed. Professor Neumann draws on an immense knowledge of the literature written during Mozart's time and on his own comprehension of the subtleties of Mozart's music and musical styles. Refusing to interpret the sources dogmatically, he frees performers of Mozart from the rigid princples too often imposed by modern scholars. Frederick Neumann is Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of Richmond. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Mozart, His Character, His Work

Author : Alfred Einstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 1962
ISBN 10 : 9780195007329
Pages : 492 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (7 downloads)

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Download Mozart, His Character, His Work PDF Format Full Free by Alfred Einstein and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1962 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the world's outstanding music historians and critics, the late Alfred Einstein, this classic study of Mozart's character and works brings to light many new facts about his relationship with his family, his susceptibility to ambitious women, and his associations with musicalcontemporaries, as well as offering a penetrating analysis of his operas, piano music, chamber music, and symphonies.

Cults and Conspiracies

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-01-16
ISBN 10 : 9781421422435
Pages : 245 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (422 downloads)

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Download Cults and Conspiracies PDF Format Full Free by Theodore Ziolkowski and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco's notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact "a secret without content."

Performing Operas for Mozart

Author : Ian Woodfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012
ISBN 10 : 9781107014299
Pages : 274 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (14 downloads)

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Download Performing Operas for Mozart PDF Format Full Free by Ian Woodfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Prague Italian opera company and its role in performing Mozart's works in the late eighteenth-century.

Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas

Author : Kristi Brown-Montesano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007-02-07
ISBN 10 : 052093296X
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (52 downloads)

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Download Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas PDF Format Full Free by Kristi Brown-Montesano and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni’s story the only one—or even the most interesting one—in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it’s Mozart’s men who have mattered most. Too often, the female characters have been understood from the male protagonist’s point of view or simply reduced on stage (and in print) to paper cutouts from the age of the powdered wig and the tightly cinched corset. It’s time to give Mozart’s women—and Mozart’s multi-dimensional portrayals of feminine character—their due. In this lively book, Kristi Brown-Montesano offers a detailed exploration of the female roles in Mozart’s four most frequently performed operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. Each chapter takes a close look at the music, libretto text, literary sources, and historical factors that give shape to a character, re-evaluating common assumptions and proposing fresh interpretations. Brown-Montesano views each character as the subject of a story, not merely the object of a hero’s narrative or the stock figure of convention. From amiable Zerlina, to the awesome Queen of the Night, to calculating Despina, all of Mozart’s women have something unique to say. These readings also tackle provocative social, political, and cultural issues, which are used in the operas to define positive and negative images of femininity: revenge, power, seduction, resistance, autonomy, sacrifice, faithfulness, class, maternity, and sisterhood. Keenly aware of the historical gap between the origins of these works and contemporary culture, Brown-Montesano discusses how attitudes about such concepts—past and current—influence our appreciation of these fascinating representations of women.

Mozart's Last Aria

Author : Matt Rees
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Release Date : 2011-11-01
ISBN 10 : 0062015869
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (62 downloads)

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Download Mozart's Last Aria PDF Format Full Free by Matt Rees and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The news arrives in a letter to his sister, Nannerl, in December 1791. But the message carries more than word of Nannerl’s brother’s demise. Two months earlier, Mozart confided to his wife that his life was rapidly drawing to a close . . . and that he knew he had been poisoned. In Vienna to pay her final respects, Nannerl soon finds herself ensnared in a web of suspicion and intrigue—as the actions of jealous lovers, sinister creditors, rival composers, and Mozart’s Masonic brothers suggest that dark secrets hastened the genius to his grave. As Nannerl digs deeper into the mystery surrounding her brother’s passing, Mozart’s black fate threatens to overtake her as well. Transporting readers to the salons and concert halls of eighteenth-century Austria, Mozart’s Last Aria is a magnificent historical mystery that pulls back the curtain on a world of soaring music, burning passion, and powerful secrets.