| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 215 pages). |
| Series |
Listener's companion |
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Listener's companion.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Timeline -- Marching bands, church music, and escape from Salzburg -- The shadow of Haydn : symphonies -- The friendship with Haydn : chamber music -- In the realm of Joseph II : the abduction from the seraglio -- Virtuoso performer : concertos -- Salons : solo keyboard works -- Revolutionary thoughts about women and power : Figaro and Così -- Carnival versus Lent : Don Giovanni -- A fellow prankster and a strange commission : the Magic Flute and Requiem -- Coda : From then until now -- Glossary. |
| Summary |
Experiencing Mozart sets out to make his music as accessible as possible to a larger audience. A carefully selected set of topics and key works from the many genres in which he wrote shows the great composer at work in his 18th-century environment. Schroeder brings together Mozart's views on politics, women, authority, and religion with his great symphonies, ground-breaking operas, and beautiful sonatas to illustrate not only how Mozart's contemporaries saw his music but what tools we need to fully appreciate it in our own time.</span. |
| Subject |
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. (OCoLC)fst00050702
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
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MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schroeder, David. Experiencing Mozart. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2013 9780810884281 |
| ISBN |
9780810884298 (electronic bk.) |
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0810884291 (electronic bk.) |
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129963821X (electronic bk.) |
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9781299638211 (electronic bk.) |
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