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The life of Mozart / John Rosselli.

By: Rosselli, John.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Musical lives.Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 1998Description: xii, 171 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0521583179; 0521587441.Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 | Composers -- Austria -- BiographyDDC classification: 780.92 MOZ
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Mozart was not only an extraordinary musical genius but a man who lived through the great change from the old society to the modern one in which we still live, when people began to move from accepting the Christian scheme of things to standing alone, from letting themselves be ruled by parents and superiors to rebelling against them. He was himself one of the 'new men' of the age; his music gives voice to anxieties and consolations that are still ours. This book, first published in 1998, sets Mozart's life within the history of an age plunging into revolution and European war. It probes his crucial relationships with his father and his wife but avoids guesswork. It studies - in depth though in non-technical language - characteristic examples of his music and asks what they can tell us about their author and ourselves.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: on the cusp
  • 1 Escape from the father
  • 2 The conflict with authority
  • 3 The eternal feminine
  • 4 Man of the theatre
  • 5 Mozart and God
  • 6 The last phase
  • 7 Requiem

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CHOICE Review

Although many fine books treat all or selected aspects of Mozart's life, Rosselli's welcome biography fills the need for an up-to-date, comprehensive but short critical study designed primarily for students and general readers. It should be read in conjunction with Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life (1995), an important, much longer, psychological biography whose thoroughness Rosselli admires but whose interpretive strategies he considers overly speculative at times. An experienced historian, not a musicologist, Rosselli (Univ. of Sussex, UK) is most effective in placing Mozart's life in the context of the great changes in European society ushered in by the Enlightenment. His discussions of the Mozart repertory are decidedly nontechnical, and he manages through adroit poetic and emotional language to make remarkably discerning musical observations that are well integrated with extramusical biographical details. For readers interested in learning about Mozart, this book is unquestionably the best place to start. Paper and binding are of exceptionally high quality. All collections. M. Marissen; Swarthmore College

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