| Edition |
First American editon. |
| Description |
360 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in 2021 by Granta Books, Great Britain. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-350) and index. |
| Contents |
In motion -- A beautiful revenge -- Leopold Mozart's grandly talented son -- Victoire Jenamy -- The lowly viola -- Musical homelessness -- Being praised -- A time when Europe was a beautiful question -- A swinging woman -- The enlightened labyrinth -- Eternal questions -- Blowing and scraping and hitting are fairly simple actions -- Using jokes -- The wandering piano -- Artistic cunning -- A happy change in the nature of lament -- Creating freedom -- Convulsive beauty -- Despair -- Symphonic largesse -- Gamblers -- Reconciliations -- Couples -- Unsure fun -- Indestructibility. |
| Summary |
"A biography of Mozart--his music, his life, and his legacy--by the poet Patrick Mackie"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand of his music, and what can it reveal to us about the great composer? Following Mozart from his youth in Salzburg to his early death; from his close and rivalrous relationship with his father to his romantic attachments; from his hugely successful operas to intimate compositions on the keyboard, Patrick Mackie leads the reader through the major and lesser-known moments of the composer's life and brings alive the teeming, swiveling modernity of eighteenth-century Europe. In this era of rococo painting, surrealist aesthetics, and political turbulence, Mozart reckoned with a searing talent that threatened to overwhelm him, all the while pushing himself to extraordinary feats of musicianship. In Mozart in Motion, we are returned to the volatility of the eighteenth century and hear Mozart's music in all its audacious vividness, gaining fresh perspectives on why his works still move us so intensely today, as we continue to search for a modernity he imagined into being" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Composers -- Austria -- Biography.
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Music -- Europe -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC / History & Criticism.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. (OCoLC)fst00050702
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Composers. (OCoLC)fst00871620
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Music. (OCoLC)fst01030269
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Austria. (OCoLC)fst01204901
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780374606206 (hardcover) |
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037460620X (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
40031827631 |
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