Renowned scholars and performers present a wide range of different perspectives on Mozart's chamber music with keyboard.

This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.

In 1829 Goethe famously described the string quartet as 'a conversation among four intelligent people'. Inspired by this metaphor, Edward Klorman's study draws on a wide variety of documentary and iconographic sources to explore Mozart's chamber works as 'the music of friends'. Illuminating the meanings and historical foundations of comparisons between chamber music and social interplay, Klorman infuses the analysis of sonata form and phrase rhythm with a performer's sensibility. He develops a new analytical method called multiple agency that interprets the various players within an ensemble as participants in stylized social intercourse - characters capable of surprising, seducing, outwitting, and even deceiving one another musically. This book is accompanied by online resources that include original recordings performed by the author and other musicians, as well as video analyses that invite the reader to experience the interplay in time, as if from within the ensemble.

This wonderful collection includes 7 well-known pieces for piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Interesting biographical information on the colorful and prolific life of Mozart is included. Music includes the Minuet in F Major, the first movement from the Sonata in C Major, the Theme from Concerto No. 21, the Rondo alla Turca, the Rondo in D Major and music from the operas Don Giovanni and the Marriage of Figaro. Beautiful performances of every piece are included on the enclosed CD.

Chamber Music: A Research and Information Guide is a reference tool for anyone interested in chamber music. It is not a history or an encyclopedia but a guide to where to find answers to questions about chamber music. The third edition adds nearly 600 new entries to cover new research since publication of the previous edition in 2002. Most of the literature is books, articles in journals and magazines, dissertations and theses, and essays or chapters in Festschriften, treatises, and biographies. In addition to the core literature obscure citations are also included when they are the only studies in a particular field. In addition to being printed, this volume is also for the first time available online. The online environment allows for information to be updated as new research is introduced. This database of information is a "live" resource, fully searchable, and with active links. Users will have unlimited access, annual revisions will be made and a limited number of pages can be downloaded for printing.

This guide looks at every important aspect of Mozart's works for piano, including the sonatas, concertos, duets, two-piano works, and variations. It examines their historical background and their aesthetic content, discusses aspects of performance, and provides detailed analyses of selected works.