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Author: George Davis Snell Publisher: ISBN: 9780962162404 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 192
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Just the book for writers, lecturers, & other communicators as they gear up for the forthcoming bicentennial. Among the 100 appreciators: Randall Jarrell, Rebecca West, Wallace Stevens, & a joyful handful of New Yorker cartoonists. - MUSICAL AMERICA. I want to recommend VIVA MOZART. Composers, critics, painters, poets, novelists & even a few cartoonists are represented here. A concise biography of each contributor precedes each contribution. Clear, readable, even the comfortable way the volume fits the hand, reflect the civilized, thoughtful, economical writing in this book. - Tom Trini, THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL. You say you've watched 'Amadeus' as many times as the average 8-year-old has seen 'Star Wars'? Then try VIVA MOZART. Our favorite tidbit from this beautifully produced book: In 1818 John Keats wrote to a friend about an unnamed woman. "She kept me awake one night, as a tune of Mozart's might do." - SAN JOSE MERCURY.
Author: Daniel Heartz Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520078727 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 392
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Renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last and great decade of Mozart's operas. Mozart specialists will recognize some of Heartz's best-known essays here; but six pieces are new for the collection, and others have been revised and updated with little-known documents on the librettist's, composer's, and stage director's craft. All lovers of opera will value the elegance and wit of Professor Heartz's writing, enhanced by thirty-seven illustrations, many from his private collection. The volume includes Heartz's classic essay on Idomeneo (1781), the work that continued to inspire and sustain Mozart through his next, and final, six operas. Thomas Bauman brings his special expertise to a discussion of Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782). The ten central chapters are devoted to the three great operas composed to librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte—Le nozze di Figaro (l786), Don Giovanni (l787), and Così fan tutte (l790). The reader is treated to fresh insights on da Ponte's role as Mozart's astute and stage-wise collaborator, on the singers whose gifts helped shape each opera, and on the musical connections among the three works. Parallels are drawn with some of the greatest creative artists in other fields, such as Molière, Watteau, and Fragonard. The world of the dance, one of Heartz's specialties, lends an illuminating perspective as well. Finally, the essays discuss the deep spirituality of Mozart's last two operas, Die Zauberflöte and La Clemenza di Tito (both l79l). They also address the pertinence of opera outside Vienna at the end of the century, the fortunes and aspirations of Freemasonry in Austria, and the relation of Mozart's overtures to the dramaturgy of the operas.