Wolfgang Amadè Mozart Essays on his Life and his Music

by Sadie, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9780198164432
• ISBN10: 0198164432
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-05-23
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This volume is a collection based on the Royal Musical Association's Mozart Conference of 1991, the principal scholarly event in the English-speaking world in commemoration of the bicentenary. It includes essays placing Mozart in the context, in Salzburg and Vienna, in which he worked,explaining aspects of his life and work hitherto obscure; essays interpreting his instrumental music; and a substantial series of studies on different aspects of his operas, from Lucio Silla to La clemenza di Tito, with particular stress on the creative processes in the Da Ponte operas.

Author Biography

Stanley Sadie is the Editor of The New Grove Dictionaries of Music.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
Preface Mozart Scholarship and the Musical World over 35 Years	p. xiii
Composer and Context	p. 1
Court, Government and Society in Mozart's Vienna	p. 3
Mozart's Personality and Creativity	p. 21
Some Chronological Problems in Mozart: the Contribution of Ink-Studies	p. 35
Sketches during the Process of Composition: Studies of K.504 and K.414	p. 53
Mozart's Reception in Vienna, 1787-1791	p. 66
Appendix	p. 95
Instrumental Music	p. 119
Prospects for a Theory-Based Analysis of the Instrumental Music	p. 121
'to Serve the Private Pleasure': Expression and Form in the String Quartets	p. 132
An Interpretation of Musical Dreams: towards a Theory of the Mozart Piano Concerto Cadenza	p. 161
The Salzburg Symphonies: a Biographical Interpretation	p. 178
Learned Style and the Rhetoric of the Sublime in the 'Jupiter' Symphony	p. 213
Mozart and the Theatre	p. 239
Mozart, Da Ponte and the Ensemble: Methods in Progress?	p. 241
Operatic Plotting in le Nozze Di Figaro	p. 250
Catalogue Arias and the 'Catalogue Aria'	p. 296
Beaumarchais, Paisiello and the Genesis of Così Fan Tutte	p. 312
Recall and Reflexivity in Così Fan Tutte	p. 339
When Mozart Revises: the Case of Guglielmo in Così Fan Tutte	p. 355
L'Arbore Di Diana: a Model for Così Fan Tutte	p. 362
Mozart and the Theatre	p. 375
'...New and Altogether Special and Astonishingly Difficult': Some Comments on Junia's Aria in Lucio Silla	p. 377
Operatic Links between Rome and Vienna, 1776-1790	p. 395
'Il Compositore Deluso': the Fragments of Lo Sposo Deluso	p. 403
Waiting for Figaro	p. 413
'...Hier Wird Es Besser Seyn--Ein Blosses Recitativ Zu Machen...': Observations on Recitative Organization in Idomeneo	p. 436
The Great Quartet in Idomeneo and the Italian Opera Seria Tradition	p. 449
An Early Form in Mozart's Late Style: The Overture to La clemenza di Tito	p. 477
From Simplicity to Complexity in la Clemenza Di Tito	p. 483
Index of Works by Mozart	p. 497
General Index	p. 503
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