On Mozart
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On Mozart
（Woodrow Wilson Center series）
Woodrow Wilson Center Press , Cambridge University Press, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Papers presented at a symposium organized by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1991
Includes index
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Description
The book, first published in 1995, is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would have us believe. He was surely a genius - in that, the legends are correct, and the evidence abounds - but he was also a working composer in a society crowded with working composers, and he had to make a living at his craft to maintain the style of living to which he and his family had become accustomed. By observing a realistic and human genius, the collection of essays portrays a more complex individual than the divinely inspired Mozart of myth, who took his notes directly from God.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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