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Download or read book The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart s Vienna written by Mary Hunter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera written by John A. Rice and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Download or read book The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart s Vienna written by Dorothea Link and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothea Link examines singers’ voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna’s court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers’ voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the performers in terms of the vocal-dramatic categories employed in opera at the time; and creating vocal profiles for the principal singers from the music composed expressly for them. In addition, Link contextualizes the singers within the company in order to expose the court opera's casting practices. Authoritative and insightful, The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna offers a singular look at a musical milieu and a key to addressing the performance-practice problem of how to cast the Mozart roles today.

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Download or read book W A Mozart Cos Fan Tutte written by Bruce Alan Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once the most light-hearted and disturbing of Mozart and Da Ponte's Italian comic works, the opera has provoked widely differing reactions from listeners for more than two centuries. This study provides a detailed account of the libretto's complex origins in myth and Italian literary classics.

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Download or read book Mozart Studies 2 written by Simon P. Keefe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by leading Mozart scholars explore the composer's popular works, biography and reception, appealing to scholars and Mozart-lovers alike.

Download or read book The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book Ludwig van Beethoven Biography in 3 Volumes written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Ludwig van Beethoven is the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, covering Beethoven's life to 1816. Thayer became aware of many discrepancies in the already existing biographies of Beethoven, so in 1849 he sailed for Europe to undertake his own researches, learning German and collecting information. Still after many updates Thayer's biography of Beethoven is regarded as a standard work of reference on the composer.

Download or read book Delphi Masterworks of Ludwig van Beethoven Illustrated written by Ludwig van Beethoven and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 2268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as the greatest composer that ever lived, Ludwig van Beethoven was the principal musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. Dominating a period of musical history as no other composer before or since, Beethoven produced monumental works that combine a forceful intensity of feeling with a perfection of design. Delphi’s Great Composers Series offers concise illustrated guides to the life and works of our greatest composers. Analysing the masterworks of each composer, these interactive eBooks include links to popular streaming services, allowing you to listen to the pieces of music you are reading about. Evaluating the masterworks of each composer, you will explore the development of their works, tracing how they changed the course of music history. Whether a classical novice or a cultivated connoisseur, this series offers an intriguing overview of the world’s most famous and iconic compositions. This volume presents Beethoven’s masterworks in succinct detail, with informative introductions, accompanying illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus features. (Version 1) * Concise and informative overview of Beethoven’s masterworks * Learn about the classical pieces that made Beethoven a celebrated composer * Links to popular streaming services (free and paid), allowing you to listen to the masterpieces you are reading about * Features a special ‘Complete Compositions’ section, with an index of Beethoven’s complete works and links to popular streaming services * Includes Beethoven’s letters (translated by Lady Wallace) - spend hours exploring the composer’s personal correspondence * Also features four biographies, including Thayer’s seminal study - explore Beethoven's intriguing musical and personal life Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting eBooks CONTENTS: The Masterworks Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II Piano Concerto No. 2 Piano Sonata No. 8, Pathétique Symphony No. 1 Piano Sonata No. 14, Moonlight Sonata Violin Sonata No. 9, Kreutzer Sonata Symphony No. 3, Eroica Fidelio Violin Concerto in D major Symphony No. 5 Symphony No. 6, Pastoral Egmont Bagatelle No. 25, Für Elise Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor Concerto Piano Trio No. 7, Archduke Symphony No. 7 Missa solemnis Symphony No. 9 String Quartet No. 14 Complete Compositions Index of Beethoven’s Compositions The Letters Beethoven’s Letters (1790-1826) The Biographies Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer Beethoven: A Memoir by Elliott Graeme Brief Biography: Ludwig van Beethoven by Donald Francis Tovey Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of exciting titles

Download or read book The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Queen of Song written by Ellen Creathorne Clayton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1863. Being memoirs of some of the most celebrated female vocalists. To which is added a chronological list of all the operas. In two volumes.

Download or read book Thayer s Life of Beethoven Part I written by Elliot Forbes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book description for the previously published "Thayer's Life of Beethoven" is not yet available.

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