Mozart : studies of the autograph scores
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Mozart : studies of the autograph scores
Harvard University Press, 1987
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- : paper
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: cloth ISBN 9780674588301
Description
The results and implications of Alan Tyson's work on Mozart have had a profound impact on virtually every aspect of research on this composer: biography, chronology of compositions, working methods, stylistic analysis. Central, perhaps, are Tyson's discoveries on chronology: time and again he has proved that datings, often of large, well-known works, that have been accepted for generations are not only erroneous but based on little more than speculation. This book assembles his major articles, previously scattered through magazines, journals, and festschrifts, plus two unpublished pieces, into a treasure trove for musicologists and music lovers.
Tyson's investigations, using primarily paper analysis, span Mozart's entire career and the full range of genres--string quartets, operas, choral music, keyboard music, concertos, and symphonies. He goes into the genesis of major works such as Cosi fan tutte, the "Prague" Symphony, the Piano Sonata K.333, the "Haydn" quartets, and "La clemenza di Tito." His conclusions about chronology bear directly on biographical questions and current accounts of Mozart's stylistic development as well as his compositional methods. We learn here, for example, that the "first" horn concerto was in fact Mozart's last, and that he did not even complete the second movement, which was finished after his death by his pupil Sussmayr. The writing (and, in some cases, rewriting) of his later operas such as "Figaro" and "Cosi fan tutte" also lends itself to investigation by the same techniques; this is resulting in the rediscovery of some lost measures and little-known variant versions of arias. Tyson's style is clear and elegant, and the originality of his work and the soundness of his inferences make this book a pleasure.
- Volume
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: paper ISBN 9780674588318
Description
The results and implications of Alan Tyson's work on Mozart have had a profound impact on virtually every aspect of research on this composer: biography, chronology of compositions, working methods, stylistic analysis. Central, perhaps, are Tyson's discoveries on chronology: time and again he has proved that datings, often of large, well-known works, that have been accepted for generations are not only erroneous but based on little more than speculation. 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.
Tyson's investigations, using primarily paper analysis, span Mozart's entire career and the full range of genres-string quartets, operas, choral music, keyboard music, concertos, and symphonies. He goes into the genesis of major works such as Cosi fan tutte, the "Prague" Symphony, the Piano Sonata K.333, the "Haydn" quartets, and La clemenza di Tito. His conclusions about chronology bear directly on biographical questions and current accounts of Mozart's stylistic development as well as his compositional methods. We learn here, for example, that the "first" horn concerto was in fact Mozart's last, and that he did not even complete the second movement, which was finished after his death by his pupil Sussmayr. The writing (and, in some cases, rewriting) of his later operas such as Figaro and Cosi fan tutte also lends itself to investigation by the same techniques; this is resulting in the rediscovery of some lost measures and little-known variant versions of arias.
Tyson's style is clear and elegant, and the originality of his work and the soundness of his inferences make this book a pleasure.
Table of Contents
Abbreviations 1. New Dating Methods: Watermarks and Paper-Studies 2. Redating Mozart: Some Stylistic and Biographical Implications 3. New Light on Mozart's "Prussian" Quartets 4. La clemenza di Tito and Its Chronology 5. A Reconstruction of Nannerl Mozart's Music Book (Notenbuch) 6. The Date of Mozart's Piano Sonata in B-flat, K.333(315c): The "Linz" Sonata? 7. Mozart's "Haydn" Quartets: The Contribution of Paper-Studies 8. The Origins of Mozart's "Hunt" Quartet, K.458 9. The Two Slow Movements of Mozart's "Paris" Symphony, K.297 10. Le nozze di Figaro: Lessons from the Autograph Score 11. The Mozart Fragments in the Mozarteum, Salzburg: A Preliminary Study of Their Chronology and Their Significance 12. The Dates of Mozart's Missa brevis K. 258 and Missa longa K.262(246a): An Investigation into His Klein-Querformat Papers 13. On the Composition of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte 14. Mozart's Use of 10-Staff and 12-Staff Paper 15. Notes on the Genesis of Mozart's "Ein musikalischer Spass," K.522 16. Mozart's D-Major Horn Concerto: Questions of Date and of Authenticity 17. The Rondo for Piano and Orchestra, K.386 18. Some Problems in the Text of Le nozze di Figaro: Did Mozart Have a Hand in Them? Notes Acknowledgments General Index Index of Archival Institutions and Their Holdings Index of Mozart's Compositions
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