Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune
Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791
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 th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-05070-7
- EAN: 9780393050707
- Produktnummer: 11834538
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.8 cm x D2.1 cm 412 g
- Abbildungen: 8 pages of illustrations
- Gewicht: 412
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Christoph Wolff is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught from 1976 to 2012. A former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany, he is the author of numerous works of music history including Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791, winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Wolff lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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