The Mozart Myths PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Mozart Myths PDF full book. Access full book title The Mozart Myths.
Author | : William Stafford |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1993-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780804722223 |
Download The Mozart Myths Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is an ambitious attempt to separate what is actually known (and can be known) about Mozart from the many myths and legends that have grown up about his life and character, notably the circumstances of his death and his alleged immaturity, drinking, extravagance, womanizing, unreliability, and professional failure.
Author | : Roye E. Wates |
Publisher | : Amadeus Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1574671898 |
Download Mozart Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
(Amadeus). Mozart: An Introduction to the Music, the Man, and the Myths explores in detail 20 of the composer's major works in the context of his tragically brief life and the turbulent times in which he lived. Addressed to non-musicians seeking to deepen their technical appreciation for his music while learning more about Mozart the man than the caricature portrayed in the 1986 movie Amadeus , this book offers extensive biographical and historical background debunking many well-established Mozart myths along with guided study of compositions representing every genre of 18th-century music: opera, concerto, symphony, church music, divertimento and serenade, sonata, and string quartet. Author Roye E. Wates, a Mozart specialist, has taught music history to thousands of non-musicians, both undergraduates and adults, as a Professor of Music at Boston University and from 2002-2004 as director of Boston University's Adult Music Seminar at Tanglewood, summer residence of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mozart: An Introduction to the Music, the Man, and the Myths provides a unique combination of biographical detail, up-to-date research, detailed musical analyses, and clear definitions of terms. Amateurs as well as more advanced musicians will gain a greater understanding of Mozart's encyclopedic mastery.
Author | : Jan Swafford |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062433598 |
Download Mozart Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Richard Will |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2022-06-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0226815420 |
Download Don Giovanni Captured Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Don Giovanni” Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance. Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni has long inspired myths about eros and masculinity. Over time, its performance history has revealed a growing trend toward critique—an increasing effort on the part of performers and directors to highlight the violence and predatoriness of the libertine central character, alongside the suffering and resilience of his female victims. In “Don Giovanni” Captured, Richard Will sets out to analyze more than a century’s worth of recorded performances of the opera, tracing the ways it has changed from one performance to another and from one generation to the next. Will consults audio recordings, starting with wax cylinders and 78s, as well as video recordings, including DVDs, films, and streaming videos. As Will argues, recordings and other media shape our experience of opera as much as live performance does. Seen as a historical record, opera recordings are also a potent reminder of the refusal of works such as Don Giovanni to sit still. By choosing a work with such a rich and complex tradition of interpretation, Will helps us see Don Giovanni as a standard-bearer for evolving ideas about desire and power, both on and off the stage.
Author | : David Cairns |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520228986 |
Download Mozart and His Operas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A noted music critic weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole.
Author | : Volkmar Braunbehrens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9780233985596 |
Download Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Rita Charbonnier |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2007-10-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307405621 |
Download Mozart's Sister Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, affectionately called Nannerl by her family, could play the piano with an otherworldly skill from the time she was a child, when her tiny hands seemed too small to encompass a fifth. At the tender age of five, she gave her first public performance, amazing the assembled gentlemen and ladies with the beautiful music she created. But her moment of glory was cut short, for even as her father carried her around to receive their praise, her mother began laboring to bring a second child into the world. After hours of her mother’s pained cries and agonized shouts, which rang in Nannerl’s ears like a terrifying symphony, the child was born. They named him Wolfgang. Nannerl loved him instantly. As they grew, Wolfgang and his sister became inseparable, creating a fantasy world together and playing music the likes of which no one had ever heard. They were two sides of a single person, opposite in temperament—he lighthearted and charismatic, she shy and retiring—but equal in talent. Yet it was Wolfgang who carried their father’s dreams of glory. And as the siblings matured, Nannerl’s prodigious talent was brushed aside by her father. Instead of playing alongside her brother in the world’s great cities, she was forced to stop performing and become a provincial piano teacher to support Wolfgang’s career. Nannerl might have accepted this life in her brother’s shadow but for the appearance of a potential suitor who reawakened her passion for life, for love, for music—and who threatened to upset the delicate balance that kept the Mozart family in harmony. Mozart’s Sister draws you into the lush palaces and salons of eighteenth-century Europe and into the fascinating life of a woman who ultimately found a way to express her own genius.
Author | : H. C. Robbins Landon |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780500281079 |
Download 1791, Mozart's Last Year Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The premature death of Mozart is the subject of 1791, a study based upon Professor Landon's unrivalled understanding of source material relating to Mozart, his music and the events that became an enigma, a tragedy and a source of great controversy.
Author | : Jane Glover |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0330470507 |
Download Mozart's Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Andrew Whitehouse |
Publisher | : Apollo Books |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781742585376 |
Download Will Mozart Make My Baby Smart? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Is there a more remarkable process than the creation of human life? Aided by little more than a bottle of wine, a Barry White tune and an agreeable mood, a woman and man can create a truly extraordinary organism.