Mozarts Letters Mozarts Life

Author : Robert Spaethling
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247961
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life written by Robert Spaethling and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-12-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
ISBN 13 : 110149395X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life in Letters written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters of one of the world’s greatest composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—seen variously as a child prodigy, musical genius, tragic Romantic artist, and cultural icon—is among the most written-about of all composers. This fascinating set of his letters offers a new understanding of his life story—his marriage, compositions, performances, occasional money worries, opinions of fellow musicians, and complex relationship with his father—and a revealing portrait of both the man and the musician.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791) written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0307824217
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart: Letters written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1101638125
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart written by Paul Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Piero Melograni
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226519562
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart written by Piero Melograni and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Jane Glover
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330470507
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart's Women written by Jane Glover and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Franz Xaver Niemetschek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845452313
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart written by Franz Xaver Niemetschek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333485453
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Mozart and his Family written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-05-29 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jan Swafford
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062433598
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart written by Jan Swafford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.