Mozart in Context

✍ Scribed by Simon Keefe (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Series: Composers in Context
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Tables
Musical Examples
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
Part I Personality, Work, Worldview
1. Personal Relationships
2. Learning and Teaching
3. Compositional Methods
4. Religious Views
5. Aesthetic Views
6. Mozart and Contemporary Composers
7. Mozart and Freemasonry
8. Mozart Iconography
Part II Towns, Cities, Countries
9. Salzburg
10. Vienna
11. Germany
12. Italy
13. France
14. Prague
15. London
Part III Career Contexts and Environments
16. Patronage
17. Mozart as Impresario
18. Publishing
19. Theatrical Life in Mozart’s Vienna
20. Mozart and Finances
Part IV Performers and Performance
21. Instrumentalists in Salzburg and Abroad
22. Instruments and Instrumentalists in Vienna
23. The Opera Singers in Vienna
24. Mozart’s Italian and German Singers
25. Mozart the Performer-Composer
26. Instrumental Performance Practice
27. Vocal Performance Practice
Part V Reception and Legacy
28. Reactions to Mozart in His Lifetime
29. Biographical and Critical Traditions
30. Mozart in Theory and Analysis
31. The Köchel Catalogue
32. Mozart’s Influence on Nineteenth-Century Composers
33. Mythmaking
34. Editing Mozart
35. Mozart on Record
Further Reading
Index of Mozart’s Works by Köchel Number
Index of Mozart’s Works by Genre
General Index

✦ Subjects

Music; Composers; History and Criticism; Musicology; Eighteenth Century