Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy --he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills-- he wrote as an adult some of the finest music in the entire European tradition. J...
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Formato: | Libro |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [etc.] :
Oxford University Press
2006
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Colección: | The master musicians
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Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Salzburg and the grand tour : 1756-1769
- Works by an "almost supernatural talent"
- Italy and Salzburg : 1769-1773
- Opera seria : "fitting the clothes to the figure"
- Salzburg : 1773-1777
- Sacred music : "I have thoroughly acquainted myself with that style since my youth"
- Mannheim and Paris : 1777-1779
- The "classical style" : Mozart and the keyboard
- Salzburg and Munich : 1779-1781
- Orchestral music : "the glorious effect of a symphony with flutes, oboes, and clarinets"
- Vienna : 1781-1785
- Singspiel : "music must never offend the ear"
- "Land of the clavier": piano concertos and piano chamber music
- Vienna and Prague : 1785-1788
- Chamber music : "the greatest composer I know"
- Opera buffa : "most important is that it must be really comic"
- The last years : 1788-1791
- The last works : "a rich possession, but even fairer hopes"
- Aftermath: "--de morte transire ad vitam"