Mozart

Informationen zum Autor Simon P. Keefe is Lecturer in Music at Queen's University! Belfast. He is the author of Mozart's Piano Concertos: Dramatic Dialogue in the Age of Enlightenment (2001). Klappentext Bridging the gap between scholarly and popular images of Mozart! this volume provides comprehensive coverage of all of his important works; the reception of his music since his death; the contexts which inform his work and his significance as a performer. It paints a rounded yet focused picture of one of the most revered artists of all time and enhances readers' appreciation of his extraordinary output. Zusammenfassung Bringing the most recent scholarship into the public arena! this volume bridges the gap between scholarly and popular images of Mozart. It provides comprehensive coverage of all his important works! the reception of his music since his death! the contexts which inform his work and his significance as a performer. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Simon P. Keefe; Chronology of Mozart's Life and Works Simon P. Keefe; Part I. Mozart in Context: 1. Mozart and Salzburg Cliff Eisen; 2. Mozart in Vienna Dorothea Link; 3. Mozart's compositional methods: writing for his singers Ian Woodfield; 4. Mozart and late eighteenth-century aesthetics David Schroeder; Part II. The Works: 5. The keyboard music W. Dean Sutcliffe; 6. The concertos in aesthetic and stylistic context Simon P. Keefe; 7. The orchestral music Simon P. Keefe; 8. Mozart's chamber music Cliff Eisen; 9. Mozart as a vocal composer Paul Corneilson; 10. The opere buffe Edmund J. Goehring; 11. Mozart and opera seria Julian Rushton; 12. Mozart's German operas David J. Buch; Part III. Reception: 13. Mozart in the nineteenth century John Daverio; 14. Mozart and the twentieth century Jan Smaczny; 15. The Evolution of Mozartian biography William Stafford; Part IV. Performance: 16. Mozart the performer Katalin Komlós; 17. Performance practice in the music of Mozart Robert D. Levin....

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• Authors: Simon P Keefe, Simon P. Keefe
• Assisted by: Jonathan Cross (Editor), Simon P. Keefe (Editor), Simon P. (Queen's University Belfast) Keefe (Editor), Keefe Simon P. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2003
• EAN: 9780521001922
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00192-2
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 245 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Music; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Music; Cambridge companion
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history