Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791

Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791
Title Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791 PDF eBook
Author Volkmar Braunbehrens
Publisher
Pages 481
Release 1990
Genre Composers
ISBN 9780233985596

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Mozart in Vienna

Mozart in Vienna
Title Mozart in Vienna PDF eBook
Author Simon P. Keefe
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 719
Release 2017-09-21
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1107116716

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Comprehensive and engaging exploration of Mozart's greatest works, focussing on his dual roles as performer and composer in Vienna.

Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna

Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
Title Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna PDF eBook
Author Mary Kathleen Hunter
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 476
Release 1997-11-27
Genre Music
ISBN 9780521572392

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This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender, nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro.

The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna

The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
Title The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna PDF eBook
Author Mary Hunter
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 350
Release 1999-04-12
Genre Music
ISBN 1400822750

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Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the lively theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Opera buffa (Italian-language comic opera) persistently entertained audiences at a time when Joseph was striving for a German national theater. Hunter attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide "sheer" pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. She argues that opera buffa, like mainstream film today, projects a social world both recognizable and distinct from reality. It raises important issues while containing them in the "merely entertaining" frame of the occasion, as well as presenting them as a series of easily identifiable dramatic and musical conventions. Exploring nearly eighty comic operas, Hunter shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits. In a concluding chapter, she discusses Cos" fan tutte as a work profoundly concerned with the conventions of its repertory and with the larger idea of convention itself and reveals the ways Mozart and da Ponte pointedly converse with their immediate contemporaries.

Mozart and Vienna

Mozart and Vienna
Title Mozart and Vienna PDF eBook
Author H. C. Landon
Publisher Schirmer Trade Books
Pages 208
Release 1994-04-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780028720265

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Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780

Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780
Title Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780 PDF eBook
Author Daniel Heartz
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 844
Release 1995
Genre Music
ISBN 9780393037128

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Historians have long tried to place the music of Haydn and Mozart in the lineage of German Lutheran music. In this book, Daniel Heartz shows that the first Viennese school grew from a Catholic inheritance in Italian music and from local tradition, with an admixture of French currents. The generation of composers led by Haydn no longer trained in Italy. By the time young Mozart joined the ranks of the Viennese school, its accomplishments towered above all others of the time. The author's approach can be compared to viewing a majestic mountain range in its totality: the highest peaks take on even greater majesty when seen in their natural context of foothills and lesser peaks. This is how Haydn and Mozart were viewed by their contemporaries, whose world of perception Heartz recreates, using, among other things, the visual art of the period. His focus is on music as a part of cultural history at a particular time and place. Stylistic terms and a priori periods matter less to him than the common denominators of geography, culture, and political history. Book jacket.

The Operetta Empire

The Operetta Empire
Title The Operetta Empire PDF eBook
Author Micaela Baranello
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 250
Release 2021-06
Genre History
ISBN 0520379128

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"When the world comes to an end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow." Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth‐century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life—one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day.