Mozart and His Operas

Name: Mozart and His Operas
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ISBN: 9780520228986

ISBN-10: 0520228987

ISBN-13: 9780520228986

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Cairns

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David Cairns--winner of the Whitbread Biography Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction--has spent his life immersed in Mozart's music, both as a performer and as a listener. This intimate biography sheds new and important light on the composer by placing his operas in the context of his life and his complete musical output. Mozart's unusual childhood as a musical prodigy touring Europe as a performer from an early age is well known. But even more remarkable is that the genius grew up to produce works of increasing maturity and originality. Cairns unravels the many myths surrounding Mozart to reveal the opinionated, passionate, and exceptionally intelligent man behind the legend.…

Book details

List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 301
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386




Imitation, assimilation : the early operas



"Such great things in so small a head" : Indomeneo



Vienna and a new life : Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail



Lorenzo Da Ponte and the perfect marriage : Le nozze di Figaro



Prague and "the opera of all operas" : Don Giovanni



Catechisms of love : Cosi fan tutte



Mozart the visionary : The magic flute



Propaganda and parable : La clemenza di Tito