Mozart and other essays on courtly art

Author(s)

• Elias, Norbert
• Baker, Eric R.
• Mennell, Stephen

Bibliographic Information

Mozart and other essays on courtly art

Norbert Elias ; edited by Eric R. Baker and Stephen Mennell

（The collected works of Norbert Elias, v. 12）

University College Dublin Press, 2010

Other Title

Mozart : zur Soziologie eines Genies

Note

Translation of: Mozart : zur Soziologie eines Genies / Norbert Elias

Originally published: Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 1991

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-179) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more than a domestic servant. Unlike his father, however, his personal makeup was already that of the freelance artist who sought to follow the flow of his own artistic conscience and imagination rather than the courtly conventions and standards of the day. In "Mozart: the Sociology of a Genius", Elias paints a portrait of this extraordinarily gifted artist born into a society that did not yet possess either the concept of 'genius' or (at least in music) that of freelance artist. The apparent contradictions of his character - the refined elegance of his compositions and the coarseness of his lavatorial humour - reflect his uncomfortable and eventually tragic straddling of two social worlds. The volume also includes two major essays on cognate topics, previously unpublished in English: on the courtly painter Watteau's "Embarkation for Cythera", and on 'The fate of German Baroque poetry: between the traditions of court and middle class'.

Table of Contents

• Norbert Elias, 1897-1990
• Note on the text
• The fate of German Baroque poetry: between the traditions of court and middle class
• Watteau's Pilgrimage to the Island of Love
• Mozart: The Sociology of a Genius: 1 He simply gave up and let go
• 2 Bourgeois musicians in court society
• 3 Mozart becomes a freelance artist
• 4 Craftsmen's art and artists' art
• 5 The artist in the human being
• 6 The formative years of a genius
• 7 Between two social worlds
• 8 Mozart's revolt: from Salzburg to Vienna
• 9 Emancipation completed: Mozart's marriage
• Appendix I The drama of Mozart's life: a chronology in note form
• Appendix II Two notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB08292636
• ISBN:
  • 9781906359096
• Country Code: ie
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Dublin
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 187 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ML410.M9
  • DC22 : 780.92
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • LCSH : Courts and courtiers
  • FREE : Music. eflch
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA84860457