I Am Mozart Too

Author : Audrey Ades
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374390358

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I Am Mozart, Too by Audrey Ades Pdf

To everyone who has heard of my famous younger brother but has never heard of me. I Am Mozart, Too is a picture book biography about Wolfgang's older sister, Maria Anna Mozart, who was a child prodigy and a secret composer, perfect for Women's History Month. Nannerl and Wolfie love playing the harpsichord together. They are so talented, the Mozart siblings perform all over Europe for packed audiences in beautiful concert halls. Even Empress Maria Theresa requests that they stop in Vienna to play especially for her. But then Nannerl does something naughty: She starts writing music of her own. Papa fumes. Girls are not allowed to compose! Girls belong behind the curtain. While Wolfie’s solo career takes flight, Nannerl must settle for a life offstage. But it doesn’t stop her from pursuing her dreams in secret. With vivid, sweeping art by Adelina Lirius, author Audrey Ades tells the powerful true story of a talented, ambitious girl who has been hidden from history—a girl who was and always will be a genius, too.

Author : Virginia Euwer Wolff
Publisher : Square Fish
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466887022

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The Mozart Season by Virginia Euwer Wolff Pdf

"Remember, what's down inside you, all covered up—the things of your soul. The important, secret things . . . The story of you, all buried, let the music caress it out into the open." When Allegra was a little girl, she thought she would pick up her violin and it would sing for her—that the music was hidden inside her instrument. Now that Allegra is twelve, she believes the music is in her fingers, and the summer after seventh grade she has to teach them well. She's the youngest contestant in the Ernest Bloch Young Musicians' Competition. She knows she will learn the notes to the concerto, but what she doesn't realize is she'll also learn how to close the gap between herself and Mozart to find the real music inside her heart. The Mozart Season includes an interview with author Virginia Euwer Wolff.

Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062433596

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Mozart by Jan Swafford Pdf

From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious. He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all things pleasurable and fun. Mozart was known to be an inexplicable force of nature who could rise from a luminous improvisation at the keyboard to a leap over the furniture. He was forever drumming on things, tapping his feet, jabbering away, but who could grasp your hand and look at you with a profound, searching, and melancholy look in his blue eyes. Even in company there was often an air about Mozart of being not quite there. It was as if he lived onstage and off simultaneously, a character in life’s tragicomedy but also outside of it watching, studying, gathering material for the fabric of his art. Like Jan Swafford’s biographies Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Mozart is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: a man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, it’s nearly impossible to understand classical music’s origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself.

Author : Yona Zeldis McDonough
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Composers
ISBN : 1442049227

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Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? by Yona Zeldis McDonough Pdf

Explores the life and work of the prolific eighteenth-century Austrian composer who began life as a child prodigy, composing music at the age of five, and died a pauper at age thirty-five.

Author : Patrick Mackie
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374606213

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Mozart in Motion by Patrick Mackie Pdf

In exhilarating, transformative prose, the poet Patrick Mackie reveals a musician in dialogue with culture at its most sweepingly progressive. Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand about 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.

Author : Michael Steen
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781848317987

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Mozart by Michael Steen Pdf

Welcome to The Independent's new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music. Extracted from Michael Steen's book The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, these concise guides, selected by The Independent's editorial team, explore the lives of composers as diverse as Mozart and Puccini, reaching from Bach to Brahms, set against the social, historical and political forces which affected them, to give a rounded portrait of what it was like to be alive and working as a musician at that time. In this ebook Steen describes the packed life of one of the greatest composers who ever lived, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In his short life of almost 36 years, music poured from his pen. Symphonies, concertos, masses, chamber music tumbled out of him. By the age of fourteen he had already completed a staggering four operas, although it is for the later ones that he is revered as one of the greatest operatic composers ever. Yet the beauty of his instrumental music alone would have guaranteed his place in the pantheon of great composers. Born in 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, he was, famously, the infant prodigy whose cash flow potential had to be maximised before he grew up and ceased to be a novelty. The relentless touring he undertook as a small child – Munich and Vienna, a three-and-a-half-year trip to Paris and London, and trips to Italy – gave way to an adulthood where he was endlessly seeking a job and patronage in a perpetual struggle to make ends meet. Steen traces Mozart's poignant progression through an age of back-biting courtiers when a composer could not hope to make his own way without bowing and scraping to the political elite, and his genius, incomprehensible as it may seem to us now, too often went unremarked.

Author : Peggy Woodford
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783238613

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New Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Peggy Woodford Pdf

Author : Ludwig Nohl
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368935511

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Life of Mozart by Ludwig Nohl Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Hans Mersmann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486228592

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Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Hans Mersmann Pdf

Over 100 often hilarious, sometimes sad, but always articulate letters from one of the most charismatic composers in history. Features his witty observations of royalty and their patronage, music, his family, his poverty, more.

Author : Heribert Rau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Musical fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004603841

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Mozart by Heribert Rau Pdf

Author : Eva Badura-Skoda,Paul Badura-Skoda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135868505

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Interpreting Mozart by Eva Badura-Skoda,Paul Badura-Skoda Pdf

Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart's works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard literature and of Mozart. Now, in a completely updated and revised edition, this book includes the last half century of scholarship on Mozart's music, addressing the elements of performance and problems that may occur in performing Mozart's works on modern instruments.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781606600597

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The Mozart Violin Concerti by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pdf

This deluxe hardcover edition of Mozart's violin concerti reproduces the composer's original manuscripts from a rare limited edition. Includes two additional pieces, Adagio in E, K. 261, and Rondo in B Flat, K. 261a.

Author : Otto Jahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108064835

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Life of Mozart: Volume 2 by Otto Jahn Pdf

The 1882 three-volume English translation of the 1867 second edition of a landmark biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91).

Author : Franz Eduard Gehring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015007878526

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Mozart by Franz Eduard Gehring Pdf

Author : John Suchet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802192912

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Beethoven by John Suchet Pdf

“An ideal ‘first book’ on Beethoven” from one of the world’s most eminent classical music aficionados (Booklist). Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew’s life, and the excruciating decline of his hearing. This absorbing narrative provides a comprehensive account of a momentous life, as it takes the reader on a journey from the composer’s birth in Bonn to his death in Vienna. Chronicling the landmark events in Beethoven’s career—from his competitive encounters with Mozart to the circumstances surrounding the creation of the well-known “Für Elise” and Moonlight Sonata—this book enhances understanding of the composer’s character, inspiring a deeper appreciation for his work. Beethoven scholarship is constantly evolving, and Suchet draws on the latest research, using rare source material (some of which has never before been published in English) to paint a complete and vivid portrait of the legendary prodigy. “A gripping and thought-provoking read.” —Howard Shelley, pianist and conductor “By exercising a genuine authority in identifying how Beethoven, the man, manifests himself in our appreciation of the music, Suchet brings an incisive freshness to an extraordinary life.” —Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music