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Author : Volkmar Braunbehrens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Composers
ISBN : 023398559X
Author : Mary Kathleen Hunter,James Webster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521572398
This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender, nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro.
Author : Mary Hunter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400822751
Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the lively theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Opera buffa (Italian-language comic opera) persistently entertained audiences at a time when Joseph was striving for a German national theater. Hunter attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide "sheer" pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. She argues that opera buffa, like mainstream film today, projects a social world both recognizable and distinct from reality. It raises important issues while containing them in the "merely entertaining" frame of the occasion, as well as presenting them as a series of easily identifiable dramatic and musical conventions. Exploring nearly eighty comic operas, Hunter shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits. In a concluding chapter, she discusses Cos" fan tutte as a work profoundly concerned with the conventions of its repertory and with the larger idea of convention itself and reveals the ways Mozart and da Ponte pointedly converse with their immediate contemporaries.
Author : Howard Chandler Robbins Landon
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001871743
As 1991 is the bicentenary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, worldwide attention will be focused on the composer and his music. Author H.C. Robbins Landon presents a dazzling portrait of 18th-century Vienna and Mozart, with a unique look at the crucial years when Mozart struggled to transform himself from a precocious boy to the creative genius he was to become.
Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107116719
Comprehensive and engaging exploration of Mozart's greatest works, focussing on his dual roles as performer and composer in Vienna.
Author : Volkmar Braunbehrens
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Composers
ISBN : UCSC:32106012195787
Author : Martin Nedbal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317094098
This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moralistic viewpoints were particularly important in eighteenth-century debates about German national theater. In Vienna, the idea that vernacular theater should cultivate the moral sensibilities of its German-speaking audiences became prominent during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa, when advocates of German plays and operas attempted to deflect the imperial government from supporting exclusively French and Italian theatrical performances. Morality continued to be a dominant aspect of Viennese operatic culture in the following decades, as critics, state officials, librettists, and composers (including Gluck, Mozart, and Beethoven) attempted to establish and define German national opera. Viennese concepts of operatic didacticism and national identity in theater further transformed in response to the crisis of Emperor Joseph II’s reform movement, the revolutionary ideas spreading from France, and the war efforts in facing Napoleonic aggression. The imperial government promoted good morals in theatrical performances through the institution of theater censorship, and German-opera authors cultivated intensely didactic works (such as Die Zauberflöte and Fidelio) that eventually became the cornerstones for later developments of German culture.
Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198164432
This volume is a collection based on the Royal Musical Association's Mozart Conference of 1991, the principal scholarly event in the English-speaking world in commemoration of the bicentenary. It includes essays placing Mozart in the context, in Salzburg and Vienna, in which he worked, explaining aspects of his life and work hitherto obscure; essays interpreting his instrumental music; and a substantial series of studies on different aspects of his operas, from Lucio Silla to La clemenza di Tito, with particular stress on the creative processes in the Da Ponte operas.
Author : Volkmar Braunbehrens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0192840258
Author : Matt Rees
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062099372
Award-winning author Matt Rees takes readers to 18th centuryAustria, where Mozart’s estranged sister Nannerl stumblesinto a world of ambition, conspiracy, and immortal music while attempting touncover the truth about her brother’s suspicious death. Did Mozart’s life endin murder? Nannerl must brave dire circumstances tofind out, running afoul of the secret police, the freemasons, and even theAustrian Emperor himself as she delves into a scandal greater than she had everimagined. With captivating historical details, compelling characters, and areal-life mystery upon which everything hinges, Rees—the award-winning authorof the internationally acclaimed Omar Yussefcrime series—writes in the tradition of Irvin Yalom’sWhen Nietzsche Wept, Louis Bayard’s The Pale Blue Eye, andPhillip Sington’s The Einstein Girl to achievethe very best in historical fiction with Mozart’s Last Aria.
Author : Vivien Shotwell
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385678049
Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything--to be famous, to be loved--and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree young girl to a passionate young woman, and it is during this transformation that her affair with Mozart blossoms. The story of their love, no less powerful for being forbidden, is reminiscent of the passionate thwarted romances described in Loving Frank and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Written in melodious prose by a young author studying opera at Yale, Vienna Nocturne is dramatic story of a woman's battle to find love and fame in an 18th-century world that controls and limits her at every turn.
Author : John A. Rice
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226711250
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Author : Daniel Heartz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393037126
Historians have long tried to place the music of Haydn and Mozart in the lineage of German Lutheran music. In this book, Daniel Heartz shows that the first Viennese school grew from a Catholic inheritance in Italian music and from local tradition, with an admixture of French currents. The generation of composers led by Haydn no longer trained in Italy. By the time young Mozart joined the ranks of the Viennese school, its accomplishments towered above all others of the time. The author's approach can be compared to viewing a majestic mountain range in its totality: the highest peaks take on even greater majesty when seen in their natural context of foothills and lesser peaks. This is how Haydn and Mozart were viewed by their contemporaries, whose world of perception Heartz recreates, using, among other things, the visual art of the period. His focus is on music as a part of cultural history at a particular time and place. Stylistic terms and a priori periods matter less to him than the common denominators of geography, culture, and political history. Book jacket.
Author : Eduard Mörike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Musical fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024264210
Author : David Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 061531757X
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.