Mozart and Other Essays on the Courtly Art
In Mozart: the Sociology of a Genius, Elias paints a portrait of this extraordinarily gifted artist born into a society that did not yet possess either the concept of genius or (at least in music) that of freelance artist. The apparent contradictions of his character - the refined elegance of his compositions and the coarseness of his lavatorial humor - reflect his uncomfortable and eventually tragic straddling of two social worlds. The volume also includes two major essays on cognate topics, previously unpublished in English: on the courtly painter Watteau's Embarkation for Cythera, and on The fate of German Baroque poetry: between the tradi…
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- ISBN: 978-1-906359-09-6
- EAN: 9781906359096
- Produktnummer: 24000102
- Verlag: Univ College Dublin Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 187 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.8 cm 517 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 12
- Gewicht: 517
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