Mozart And Salieri

Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015019879405

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Salieri by Alexander Wheelock Thayer Pdf

In 1863-64, the author penned what remains today the most extensive biography of Antonio Salieri in the English language. In a lively style, abounding with wit and commentary on current events, the author presents a thorough account of Salieri's life, dealing objectively with such controversial issues as his supposed "boycott" of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, his obstruction of Mozart's desired appointment at court, his alleged poisoning of Mozart, and the delusions which Salieri suffered during his mental and physical decline in old age. Viewed against the backdrop of long-time Hapsburg patronage of Italian opera in Vienna, Salieri emerges as an industrious composer of musical comedy and drama to suit the imperial taste. For the first time he becomes a recognizable human being, a loving husband and father, a light-hearted friend, as well as a generous teacher. At the same time, however, Salieri remained politically astute, even cunning, in furthering his own career. Thayer's compelling narrative includes liberal quotes from associates who knew Salieri well, in addition to many personal reminiscences by the composer himself. This new, updated and enlarged edition also contains several appendices which Thayer was forced to omit from the original, including Salieri's essays on his teacher Gluck and on methods of string playing, as well as observations on the aged Salieri's behavior by his two male nurses.

Author : John A. Rice
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226711250

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Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera by John A. Rice Pdf

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Author : Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
Publisher : Learning Links
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 094616200X

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Mozart and Salieri by Александр Сергеевич Пушкин Pdf

Author : Reid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004647916

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Pushkin's Mozart and Salieri by Reid Pdf

Mozart and Salieri, probably the best known of Pushkin's `Little Tragedies', was written in 1830 during the peak of the poet's creative powers. Like the other Little Tragedies it is a `closet drama' which concentrates on the devastating effects of an all-consuming human passion, in this case envy. Mozart and Salieri typifies Pushkin's implicational technique of character construction: the salient points of a fictional psyche are highlighted sufficiently to suggest inner depth while stopping short of precise concretication; this allows full play to lectorial inference on a plurality of connotational levels - thematic, psychological and sociological. The present work, the first of its kind in English, isolates two major thematic dominants in the play - envy and music - and these form the focus for its aesthetic and psychological preoccupations respectively. A variety of psychological approaches are brought to bear on the play's protagonists including adaptations of the theories of Freud, Adler, Jung and Klages. The readiness with which these contrastive but complementary approaches yield new insights into the nature and motivations of the protagonists of Mozart and Salieri points to a work of profound cultural significance, something all the more remarkable given its modest compass. The sociological and anthropological approaches applied to the drama in this study dwell particularly on theories of social interaction and theories of alienation, anomie and suicide. Pushkin has often been regarded as an enigmatic phenomenon in the west, the compactness and economy of his works often seeming at odds with the degree of impact which they have made on subsequent generations of Russian writers. The present work seeks to lay bare what is typical for Pushkin: the intimation of great psychological and philosophical truths via a superficially unassuming medium. It is not surprising, therefore, that the influence of Pushkin's Mozart and Salieri, and of the aesthetic and ideological positions they represent, can be felt in the works of later Russian writers, notably Dostoyevsky.

Author : Nadezhda Mandelʹshtam
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich : Ardis
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005104644

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Mozart and Salieri by Nadezhda Mandelʹshtam Pdf

Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Composers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042627492

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Salieri by Alexander Wheelock Thayer Pdf

In 1863-64, the author penned what remains today the most extensive biography of Antonio Salieri in the English language. In a lively style, abounding with wit and commentary on current events, the author presents a thorough account of Salieri's life, dealing objectively with such controversial issues as his supposed "boycott" of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, his obstruction of Mozart's desired appointment at court, his alleged poisoning of Mozart, and the delusions which Salieri suffered during his mental and physical decline in old age. Viewed against the backdrop of long-time Hapsburg patronage of Italian opera in Vienna, Salieri emerges as an industrious composer of musical comedy and drama to suit the imperial taste. For the first time he becomes a recognizable human being, a loving husband and father, a light-hearted friend, as well as a generous teacher. At the same time, however, Salieri remained politically astute, even cunning, in furthering his own career. Thayer's compelling narrative includes liberal quotes from associates who knew Salieri well, in addition to many personal reminiscences by the composer himself. This new, updated and enlarged edition also contains several appendices which Thayer was forced to omit from the original, including Salieri's essays on his teacher Gluck and on methods of string playing, as well as observations on the aged Salieri's behavior by his two male nurses.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410392602

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A Study Guide for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri's "Amadeus" (lit-to-film) by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri's "Amadeus" (lit-to-film), excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Peter Shaffer
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0141188898

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Amadeus by Peter Shaffer Pdf

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn t recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buffoon and suddenly aware of his own mediocrity, Salieri declares war and sets out to destroy the man he sees as God s instrument on earth. Peter Shaffer s award-winning play is a rich, exuberant portrayal of a God-like man among mortals, and lives destroyed by envy."

Author : Nadezhda Mandelʹshtam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Russian poetry
ISBN : OCLC:1187186970

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Mozart and Salieri by Nadezhda Mandelʹshtam Pdf

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:B000299731

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Mozart and Salieri by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin Pdf

Author : Peter Shaffer
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0451158946

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Peter Shaffer's Amadeus by Peter Shaffer Pdf

Author : Peter Shaffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015066074181

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Amadeus by Peter Shaffer Pdf

Play about the relationship between Mozart and Salieri.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:681803569

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Mozart and Salieri by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : David Weiss
Publisher : New York : W. Morrow, 1971 [c1970]
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Austria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035630826

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The Assassination of Mozart by David Weiss Pdf

Told through the eyes of fictional character, Jason Otis, this book presents a fictionized account of the people and events surrounding the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.