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Klappentext From the eighteenth century to our own, Mozart has remained one of the World's most inventive and popular composers. The essays in this collection examine Mozart and his art from psychological, historical, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives. They set Mozart, first, in the timeless ahistorical space reserved for individuals of spectacular creativity, then in his time, and finally in our time. Most of the authors are not professional Mozart scholars or musicologists, but all are Mozart Lovers. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays! first published in 1995! suggests how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than legend and the media would have us believe. By observing a realistic and human genius! the book portrays a more complex individual than the divinely inspired Mozart of myth! who took his notes directly from God. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Approaching Mozart Denis Donoghe; 2. How extraordinary was Mozart? Howard Gardner; 3. Mozart and the transformational imperative David Henry Feldman; 4. On the economics of musical composition in Mozart's Vienna William J. Baumol and Hilda Baumol; 5. Mozart as a working stiff Neal Zaslow; 6. The challenge of blank paper: Mozart the composer Christoph Wolff; 7. Marianne Mozart Carissima Sorella Mia Maynard Solomon; 8. Mozart's concertos and their audience Joseph Kerman; 9. Mozart's tunes and the comedy of closure Wye J. Allanbrook; 10. Don Giovanni against the Baroque or the culture punished Michael P. Steinberg; 11. Nineteenth-century Mozart: the fin-de-siecle Mozart revival Leon Botstein; 12. The abduction from the theater: Mozart opera on film Stanley Kauffmann.
