Author : Harrison James Wignall
Publisher : Universal Sales & Marketing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781557784940
A guide to the cities where Mozart lived, worked, and performed discusses the sites associated with him, the music he composed there, and other biographical details, as well as providing current travel and tourist information
Author : David Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780615317571
Vienna has the richest musical history of any city in the world, and Vienna for the Music Lover is the complete guide to seeing and experiencing this wonderful city first-hand. The stories of the Viennese masters are told through the city’s museums, opera houses, concert halls, residences, churches, streets, and neighborhoods. Detailed descriptions, including numerous quotes and historic pictures, make the lives of the composers come to life on every page. You can even walk in the composer’s footsteps by taking one of the book’s eight musical walks. Concluding this overview is a list of 419 musical addresses, the most comprehensive of its kind ever in print.
Author : Pamela Lee Poulin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Clarinetists
ISBN : 9781576473191
Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316850838
The vibrant intellectual, social and political climate of mid eighteenth-century Europe presented opportunities and challenges for artists and musicians alike. This book focuses on Mozart the man and musician as he responds to different aspects of that world. It reveals his views on music, aesthetics and other matters; on places in Austria and across Europe that shaped his life; on career contexts and environments, including patronage, activities as an impresario, publishing, theatrical culture and financial matters; on engagement with performers and performance, focusing on Mozart's experiences as a practicing musician; and on reception and legacy from his own time through to the present day. Probing diverse Mozartian contexts in a variety of ways, the contributors reflect the vitality of existing scholarship and point towards areas primed for further study. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of late eighteenth-century music and for Mozart aficionados and music lovers in general.
Author : David Etheridge
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 1983
Category :
ISBN : 9781455609048
Author : Diane Stanley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0060726741
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart was only three years old—not much bigger than his name—on the day his life changed forever. So begins this vivid biography about one of the most legendary prodigies in history. Award-winning author and illustrator Diane Stanley engagingly tells the story of a brilliant boy who grew up to be a complex and often troubled young man—a man who composed some of the most beautiful music of all time. With stunning and expressive illustrations, she portrays Mozart's turbulent life as a marionette show, inspired by the famous Salzburg Marionette Theatre, using an innovative artistic approach to present the life of a renowned musical genius. In concise and lyrical prose, Stanley presents an honest and sympathetic portrait of the boyhood and tragically short adulthood of a composer whose music has lived on for more than two hundred years.
Author : Harrison Gradwell Slater
Publisher : NAL
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451209726
This dazzling debut novel is about a down-on-his-luck scholar who acquires what may or may not be the diary of a young Mozart, and is thrust into a decadent European world--where passion and intrigue build to a crescendo of murder.
Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0714545333
John Wells introduces the opera with a high-spirited account of the action-packed career of the author, in many respects the prototype of Figaro himself. Basil Deane explores the score: he shows that Mozart's characters are illuminated here not so much in soliloquies but in their reactions to each other. Composer Stephen Oliver discusses how the comedy exists not just in the words but, essentially, in the music. The full Italian text is given, with a note on the order of scenes in Act Three and the alternative passages Mozart wrote for the 1789 revival. The classic translation of E.J. Dent is an excellent way to get to know the twists and turns of the plot and the stylish wit of da Ponte's innuendos.Contents: A Society Marriage, John Wells; A Musical Commentary, Basil Deane; Music and Comedy in 'The Marriage of Figaro, Stephen Oliver; Beaumarchais's Characters; Le nozze di Figaro: Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte; The Marriage of Figaro: English version by Edward J. Dent
Author : Michael Cherlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 20,17 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110714129X
Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.
Author : Thomas Leonard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1626722862
Highlights the life and achievements of the eighteenth-century German composer and musician, and examines the development of his most important compositions.
