Mozart the Performer

2023 Music

Author : Dorian Bandy
Release : 2023
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 557/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Mozart the Performer written by Dorian Bandy. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mozart today is known as one of the foremost composers in Western music; yet, during his lifetime, his compositional mastery seemed to pale in comparison with his achievements on the concert platform. Mozart knew that his fame was due to his piano playing and improvisations; and, as a result, much of the music he wrote was intended to serve a single aim: to set the stage, quite literally, for compelling and captivating performances. In his piano works, symphonies, and operas he sought to amuse, stir, and ravish an awe-struck public. Mozart the Performer brings to life this elusive side of Mozart's musicianship. Over the course of five "variations," Dorian Bandy traces the influence of showmanship on Mozart's style, imbuing his output with a theatricality and evanescence easily lost behind the scrim of familiarity. This insightful and imaginative book reveals the countless ways performance influenced Mozart's compositional habits, ultimately offering a genuinely novel understanding of why, centuries later, Mozart's music still captivates us and inspiring new ways of listening to it"--

Don Giovanni Captured

2022-06-14 Music

Author : Richard Will
Release : 2022-06-14
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 420/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Don Giovanni Captured written by Richard Will. This book was released on 2022-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

Mozart in Context

2018-12-20 Music

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Release : 2018-12-20
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 838/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Mozart in Context written by Simon P. Keefe. This book was released on 2018-12-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant intellectual, social and political climate of mid eighteenth-century Europe presented opportunities and challenges for artists and musicians alike. This book focuses on Mozart the man and musician as he responds to different aspects of that world. It reveals his views on music, aesthetics and other matters; on places in Austria and across Europe that shaped his life; on career contexts and environments, including patronage, activities as an impresario, publishing, theatrical culture and financial matters; on engagement with performers and performance, focusing on Mozart's experiences as a practicing musician; and on reception and legacy from his own time through to the present day. Probing diverse Mozartian contexts in a variety of ways, the contributors reflect the vitality of existing scholarship and point towards areas primed for further study. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of late eighteenth-century music and for Mozart aficionados and music lovers in general.

Mozart's Music of Friends

2016-04-21 Art

Author : Edward Klorman
Release : 2016-04-21
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 651/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Mozart's Music of Friends written by Edward Klorman. This book was released on 2016-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.

Mozart

1905

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Release : 1905
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Download or read book Mozart written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This book was released on 1905. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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