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Informationen zum Autor Simon P. Keefe is James Rossiter Hoyle Chair and Head of Music at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Mozart's Piano Concertos: Dramatic Dialogue in the Age of Enlightenment and Mozart's Viennese Instrumental Music: A Study of Stylistic Re-invention and has edited five volumes for Cambridge University Press: The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music, Mozart Studies, The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia (with Cliff Eisen), The Cambridge Companion to Mozart and The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto. He is also the author of more than forty scholarly articles and book chapters. Klappentext A fresh evaluation of Mozart's Requiem which focuses on historical and current understandings in fiction, drama, film, criticism and performance. Zusammenfassung Simon P. Keefe presents a fresh interpretation of one of western music's most celebrated works. The study focuses on historical and current understandings of Mozart's Requiem in fiction! drama! film! criticism and performance! paying special attention to legends surrounding the work! and re-appraises Mozart's musical contributions and completions of the score. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Mozart's Requiem in context; 1. The Requiem legend in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 2. Criticism and scholarship from 1800 to the present day; 3. The Requiem in performance; 4. Mozart's work on the Requiem: sounds and strategies; 5. After Mozart: the Requiem completion, 1791-2; 6. Modern completions of the Requiem; Epilogue: a Requiem for the future.
