Mozarts Letters Mozarts Life

Author : Robert Spaethling
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393247961

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Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life by Robert Spaethling Pdf

"A wonderful collection that gives Mozart a voice as a son, husband, brother and friend." —New York Times Book Review "Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authority all shine out from these letters."—Sunday Times (London). " In Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life, Robert Spaethling presents "Mozart in all the rawness of his driving energies" (Spectator), preserved in the "zany, often angry effervescence" of his writing (Observer). Where other translators have ignored Mozart's atrocious spelling and tempered his foul language, "Robert Spaethling's new translations are lively and racy, and do justice to Mozart's restlessly inventive mind" (Daily Mail). Carefully selected and meticulously annotated, this collection of letters "should be on the shelves of every music lover" (BBC Music Magazine).

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1457 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141441467

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Mozart by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pdf

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) - seen variously as child prodigy, musical genius, tragic Romantic artist and cultural icon - is among the most written-about of all composers. This landmark new selection of letters tells Mozart's story afresh through his correspondence. In contrast to many earlier editions, it contains not only his own, sometimes affectionate, sometimes fraught, writings to family, friends and his wife Constanze, but also many of his father Leopold's regular letters to his son and written descriptions of Mozart's dazzling court recitals. Offering a fascinating insight into Mozart's compositions, performances and opinions of fellow musicians, his marriage, his complex relationship with his father, and his occasional money worries, these letters form a revealing portrait of both the man and the musician.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044041105222

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The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pdf

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307824219

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Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pdf

Mozart's remarkable life was well and richly documented in letters: his own and those concerning him written by others. This volume brings together a fascinating selection, giving us a detailed portrait of the composer's life and times. Here are letters to and from Mozart's domineering father, Leopold, the earliest of which, addressed to a friend, describes the six-year-old Mozart's accomplishments. There is also a letter sent to the Royal Society in London from one of its members describing an astonishing encounter with the eight-year-old prodigy. Here are letters from the adolescent Mozart to his mother and sister; adoring, protective missives to his wife; and, from his later years, letter after letter to friends, family, former patrons, and fellow musicians begging for financial help.Mozart's correspondence is full of details that illuminate the quotidien aspects of his days, reveal the great joys and burdens of his musical genius, and provide us with a lively account of the musical politics in the courts and opera houses of eighteenth-century Europe. Finally, in a letter written by Mozart's sister-in-law, this splendid epistolary portrait of the great composer is completed with a deeply moving account of his last hours.

Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781101638125

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Mozart by Paul Johnson Pdf

Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his music As he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson’s focus is on the music—Mozart’s wondrous output of composition and his uncanny gift for instrumentation. Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart’s gift and skill with instruments was also remarkable as he mastered all of them except the harp. For example, no sooner had the clarinet been invented and introduced than Mozart began playing and composing for it. In addition to his many insights into Mozart’s music, Johnson also challenges the many myths that have followed Mozart, including those about the composer’s health, wealth, religion, and relationships. Always engaging, Johnson offers readers and music lovers a superb examination of Mozart and his glorious music, which is still performed every day in concert halls and opera houses around the world.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Stanley Sadie,Fiona Smart
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989-05-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 0333485459

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The Letters of Mozart and his Family by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Stanley Sadie,Fiona Smart Pdf

This study has been revised to include new finds about the composition dates of several Mozart works. A new bibliography and a collation with the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe edition of letters, edited by O.E.Deutsch, W.A.Bauer and J.H.Eibl: Baerenreiter, 1962-75 is also included.

Author : Piero Melograni
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226519562

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Piero Melograni Pdf

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Author : Franz Xaver Niemetschek,Cliff Eisen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781845452315

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Mozart by Franz Xaver Niemetschek,Cliff Eisen Pdf

In 1798 Franz Xaver Niemetschek published this biography of Mozart - the only one written by an eyewitness and authorized by Mozart's widow Konstanze. It includes a dedication to Haydn and is one of the earliest specimens of musical biography which, compared with other branches of biography, was still in its infancy even in the latter part of the 19th century. This first biography of Mozart is not only an important document of music history but also a loving and intimate portrait of the world-renowned composer. Based on documents, letters and other original sources, Mozart: The First Biography conveys a vivid picture of the social and courtly life that formed the background of Mozart's sheer magical talents as a composer and virtuoso.

Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141441467

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A Life in Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pdf

A selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology.

Author : Jane Glover
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780330470506

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Mozart's Women by Jane Glover Pdf

Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women. He loved and respected them, composed for them, performed with them. This unique biography looks at his interaction with each, starting with his family (his mother, Maria Anna and beloved and talented sister, Nannerl), and his marriage (which brought his 'other family', the Weber sisters). His relationships with his artists are examined, in particular those of his operas, through whose characters Mozart gave voice to the emotions of women who were, like his entire female acquaintance, restrained by the conventions and structures of eighteenth-century society. This is their story as well as his -- and shows once again that a great part of the composer’s genius was in his understanding and musical expression of human nature. Evocative and beautifully written, Mozart’s Women illuminates the music, the man, and above all the women who inspired him. 'Jane Glover has pulled off a coup des livres with her fresh take on Mozart's life and work’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Readable, informative and moving...Her passion for the music shines through this touching, vividly told story' Sunday Times

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Composers
ISBN : OXFORD:600022383

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The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pdf

Author : Jeremy Siepmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120957050

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Mozart by Jeremy Siepmann Pdf

Sourcebooks MediaFusion and Naxos proudly present the life and works of Mozart, complete with two audio CDs and an exclusive website. In this lively and accessible biography, Jeremy Siepmann reminds us of a remarkable natural talent who was, however, all too human. Read the text and listen to two CDs containing a carefully chosen cross-section of Mozart's music. Readers also gain access to an exclusive website that offers the musical works in full, the music of Mozart's father, a detailed timeline and more. This revolutionary biography utilizes traditional and new media to provide a uniquely rounded portrait of the composer himself. Naxos is the world's leading classical music label and provider of classical music over the Internet at www.naxos.com.

Author : Maynard Solomon
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060926929

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Mozart by Maynard Solomon Pdf

A biography of eighteenth-century Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, discussing his childhood, his talent as a composer and musician, his tumultuous career and personal life, and his early death.

Author : F. N. Monjo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0140348018

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Letters to Horseface by F. N. Monjo Pdf

While journeying through Italy in 1770, fourteen-year-old Mozart relates his experiences in letters to his sister.