Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune Serving the Emperor, 1788 - 1791

Name: Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune Serving the Emperor, 1788 - 1791
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ISBN: 9780393050707

ISBN-10: 039305070X

ISBN-13: 9780393050707

Edition: 2012

Authors: Christoph Wolff

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I now stand at the gateway to my fortune, Mozart wrote in a letter of 1790. He had entered into the service of Emperor Joseph II of Austria two years earlier as Imperial-Royal Chamber Composer—a salaried appointment with a distinguished title and few obligations. His extraordinary subsequent output, beginning with the three final great symphonies from the summer of 1788, invites a reassessment of this entire period of his life. Readers will gain a new appreciation and understanding of the composer’s works from that time without the usual emphasis on his imminent death. The author discusses the major biographical and musical implications of the royal appointment and explores Mozart’s…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Limited
Publication date: 6/26/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.83" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

He is a William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University, is coauthor of the Bach Compendium.



Illustrations


Preface


Prologue: Mozart, 1788 to 1791-An Inevitable End or a New Beginning?



Imperial Appointments: Mozart and Salieri


Time for Change


Prolific under Discouraging Conditions


Toward Spirited Partnership



Explorations Outside of Vienna


Traveling Again


Frankfurt, 1790: The Self-Styled Ambassador


Leipzig and Berlin, 1789


Bach Circles at Home and Abroad



Grand Ambitions: Expanding Compositional Horizons


A Musical Announcement


A Garden Apartment for a Bold Start


The Notion of "Imperial Style"



"Vera Opera" and The Magic Flute


What's in a Name?


More than an Egyptian Opera


The Language of "Grand Opera"



"The Higher Pathetic Style of Church Music" and the Requiem


An Auspicious Prospect


A Timely Commission


Envisioning a New Kind of Sacred Music



"Composed, Just Not Yet 'Written"-Music Never to Be Heard


A Self-Assured Prodigy


Work in Progress: The Fragments


Windows Ajar: Fleeting Sounds of Chamber Music


Epilogue


Appendix: Currency and Monetary Values


Notes


Bibliography


Index