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Mozart: His Music in His Life

Book by Ivor Keys; Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1980

Subjects:

Composers--Austria--Biography, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--1756-1791

Collections: Entire Library

MOZART His Music in his Life MOZART His Music in his Life...Ivor Christopher Banfield. Mozart: his music in his life. Bibliography: p. Includes...works is not used here. The life and the works, with Mozart, are inextricably mingled...
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A Mozart Diary: A Chronological Reconstruction of the Composer's Life, 1761-1791

Book by Peter Dimond; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

Composers--Austria--Biography, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--1756-1791--Chronology

Collections: Entire Library

An account of the composer's day-to-day life as evidenced in various kinds of biographical sources, this work reveals the astonishing succession of meetings with the glitterati of Europe and the awe-inspiring effect Mozart had on other composers--and their envious responses. It also places him at ...
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An account of the composer's day-to-day life as evidenced in various kinds of biographical sources, this work reveals the astonishing succession of meetings with the glitterati of Europe and the awe-inspiring effect Mozart had on other composers--and their envious responses. It also places him at home with his wife and family, battling against heart-rending financial failure while his operas were being performed across Europe. Musically, the work situates Mozart's compositions in their chronological context. This fascinating account will be of interest to scholars, students, and Mozart enthusiasts.
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Wolfgang Amadè Mozart: Essays on His Life and His Music

Book by Stanley Sadie; Clarendon Press, 1996

Subjects:

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--1756-1791--Congresses

Collections: Entire Library

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 ...
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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.
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Haydn, Mozart, & Beethoven: Studies in the Music of the Classical Period

Book by Sieghard Brandenburg; Clarendon Press, 1998

Subjects:

Beethoven, Ludwig Van--1770-1827--Criticism And Interpretation, Haydn, Joseph--1732-1809--Criticism And Interpretation, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--1756-1791--Criticism And Interpretation, Music--18th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Entire Library

This collection of nineteen essays honors Alan Tyson, Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Fellow of the British Academy, and leading authority on the Classical period. The distinguished contributors include Neal Zaslaw, Joseph Kerman, Lewis Lockwood, Cliff Eisen, James Webster, Jan LaRue ...
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This collection of nineteen essays honors Alan Tyson, Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Fellow of the British Academy, and leading authority on the Classical period. The distinguished contributors include Neal Zaslaw, Joseph Kerman, Lewis Lockwood, Cliff Eisen, James Webster, Jan LaRue, Douglas Johnson, Maynard Solomon, and Richard Kramer.
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The Mozart Companion

Book by H. C. Robbins Landon, Donald Mitchell; Oxford University Press, 1956

Subjects:

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--1756-1791

Collections: Entire Library

...produced as illustrations of Mozarts life and works are not very discriminating...down to the minutest detail, of Mozarts life and milieu, and our sources for...public. During the last decade of Mozarts life nearly all professional musicians...

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Journal Articles on: mozart life

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Cockney Mozart: The Hunt Circle, the King's Theatre, and Don Giovanni

Journal article by Gillen D'Arcy Wood; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 44, 2005

Subjects:

Hunt, Leigh--Criticism and interpretation, Italian drama--Criticism and interpretation, Italian poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Evenings" attests, Mozarts operas had been a...staple of Hunt circle life for a decade before...drink in as much Mozart and Paesiello as...afford her" (Clarke, Life 15, 25). For the...political goal but as a life-style. For the Cockneys...Choosing to sing Mozart all day with friends...
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Mozart and His Operas

Journal article by David Schroeder; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Mozart and His Operas (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Another book on Mozarts operas, particularly those of his last ten years, will surprise us, especially as no phase of Mozarts life and work has been more thoroughly scrutinized. Throughout the book, David Cairns liberally quotes some of the notable...
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Why Mozart and Not Salieri

Journal article by William A. Therivel; Creativity Research Journal, Vol. 12, 1999

Subjects:

Creative Ability--Periodicals

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Jahn, O. ( 1900 ). Life of Mozart . New York: Edwin F...Jones, E. ( 1953 ). The life and work of Sigmund Freud...Kerst, F. ( 1965 ). Mozart: The man and the artist...Solomon, M. ( 1995 ). Mozart: A life . New York: Harper Collins...
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Music and Culture: Mozart, Bach, and Musical Abjection

Journal article by Marshall Brown; Musical Quarterly, Vol. 83, 2000

Subjects:

Music

Collections: Entire Library

...him in writing his life. The bad conscience of the modern (Mozart, Beethoven, or...equivocalness of life itself." 30 Notes 1. Alfred Mozart Einstein: His Character...Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (New York: Harper...
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Facing the Risks of the "Mozart Effect'

Journal article by Bennett Reimer; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 81, 1999

Subjects:

Music--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...more Mozart."14 He did not reply that he spent more time analyzing and describing Mozarts music or learning more about Mozarts life, about the historical/cultural milieu from which he came, about the musical heritage he built upon, about the aesthetic...

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Magazine Articles on: mozart life

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The Mozart Effect

Magazine article by Michael Linton; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, March 1999

Subjects:

Brain research--Evaluation, Classical music--Psychological aspects, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--Works, Music, Influence of--Research, Music--Psychological aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...accompanying compact discs and cassettes. In the great tradition of P. T. Barnum and the "Veg-O-Matic," Mozart has now hit the mainstream of American life. The impetus for this remarkable turn of events was a modest letter by Frances Rauscher, Gordon...
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The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier De Saint-George

Magazine article by Diane Higgins; American Music Teacher, Vol. 56, June 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint-George (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Education, Entire Library

The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier...Higgins * The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier...95. While telling the life story of Chevalier de Saint-George...France. Known as the other Mozart (the black Mozart), he...
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Chocolate Box Mozart: Salzburg Was Slow to Cash in on Its Leading Son, but Now Celebrates Him in Marzipan, Observes William Cook

Magazine article by William Cook; New Statesman, Vol. 136, August 13, 2007

Subjects:

Composers--Appreciation, Composers--Influence, Marzipan--Appreciation, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--Appreciation, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--Influence, Salzburg, Austria (City)--Description and travel

Collections: Entire Library

...said when he came here: "Mozart has influenced the entire life of this city." During...role in Mozarts creative life. Mozart wasnt just born here...Saturday, you can hear Mozarts Requiem--his final composition, a life snuffed out, a civilisation...
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Getting the Most out of Mozart: The Vocal Works

Magazine article by Cheryl Coker; American Music Teacher, Vol. 56, December 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Getting the Most Out of Mozart: The Vocal Works (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...page of anecdotal and historical notes, but that is sufficient to allow the reader to place each work in the context of Mozarts life. Based on Hurwitzs often clever observations, the reader can choose whether to explore these operas more in depth. Ten...
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Mozart Mania

Magazine article by Stephen Henkin; World and I, Vol. 13, October 1998

Subjects:

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--Homes and haunts, Salzburg, Austria--Description and travel

Collections: Entire Library

...well-educated glimpse into Mozarts life and work provided at...Schwanthalers larger-than-life bronze statue glorifying Mozart as "the Hero of Music...can resist that? Mozarts sacred music also is...point in the religious life of the city, with appropriate...

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Newspaper Articles on: mozart life

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A Master Whose Genius Endures; Christopher Morley Reminds Us Why Mozart Is Still King, 250 Years after the Great Composer's Birth

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 26, 2006

Subjects:

Composers, Mozart, Leopold

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ten years of his life and which probably...their own tributes to Mozart, of which the most...with his cheeks as life left him. Mozarts music can be appreciated...Cathedral, where Mozart and Constanze lived...Beethovens artistic life that he was called...
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Festival Makes the Most of Mozart

Newspaper article by Chris Freiberg; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 28, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...who inspired, and were inspired by, him - despite his brief 35-year life span. "Just because the festival is centered around Mozart doesnt mean we have to play exclusively Mozart," said Anita Whalen, general director for the fest. New this year...
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The Other Mozart Maestro

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 30, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...quietly in Salzburg with her father andgiving piano lessons to young ladies. The Mozarts mother having died in Paris in 1778, their autocratic old fathermade life for his two children a miseryin poor Nannerls case by driving away her only real...
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Mozart? You Hum It and I'll Gurgle It . . . Maternity Hospital Hits on a Classic Idea to Ensure Peace and Harmony

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 6, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...music at all. It was discovered that the rhythmic qualities of Mozarts music mimic some of the rhythmic cycles which occur in the brain...playing the music regularly to the babies helps them adapt to life outside the womb in the first days after birth. Serenading...
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Too Much Mozart Makes You Sick; Prepare for a Year of Cloying Celebrations to Mark the Composer's 250th Birthday

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 14, 2005

Subjects:

Composers, Die Zauberflote (Opera)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...quills. Little in such a mediocre life gives cause for celebration and...death in 1891. The bandwagon of Mozart commemorations was invented by...all the pseudoscience of the Mozart Effect, I have yet to see a life elevated by Cos fan tutte or...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: mozart life

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...his more frivolous works. At the death of Gluck (1787), Mozart succeeded him as chamber musician and court composer to Joseph...however, and his financial troubles persisted to the end of his life. An example of the elegant pieces written for social occasions...
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Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...considered revolutionary. Life Born in Bonn, Beethoven showed...world. There he performed for Mozart , whom he greatly impressed...marriage or station. His personal life was further complicated when...by the tradition of Haydn and Mozart. Beginning about 1802, Beethovens...
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Haydn, Michael

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...sacred music. He was a friend of Mozart, whose Symphony No. 37 is actually Haydns work with an introduction by Mozart. Toward the end of his life Haydn taught the Czech composer Antonin Reicha and Carl Maria von Weber . ____________________ The Columbia...
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Opera

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...theme of personal freedom versus political tyranny. But it was Mozarts Die Zauberflote, which rested on the foundations of singspiel...von Nurnberg (1868), Wagners only comic opera, used the real-life cobbler and poet Hans Sachs as the central character. The...
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Da Ponte, Lorenzo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of these were for three Mozart masterpieces The Marriage...most of the rest of his life in New York City as a...detailing his extraordinary life; biographies by J. L...2006); A. Steptoe, The Mozart Da Ponte Operas (1988); M. Du Mont, The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas: An Annotated...

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