Download or read book The Best of Mozart written by Samuel Applebaum and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents are: * Adagio (K. 170) * Allegretto (K. 156) * Allegro (K. 80) * Allegro (K. 155) * Allegro (K. 157) * Divertimento (K. 138) * Entr'acte (K. 138) * Fugue (K. 168) * Melody (K. 155) * Menuetto (K. 421) * Menuetto (K. 465) * Menuetto and Trio (K. 298) * Presto (K. 156) * Presto (K. 157) * Presto (K. 160) * Rondo (K. 80) * Rondo (K. 159)
Download or read book Mozart written by Jan Swafford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious. He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all things pleasurable and fun. Mozart was known to be an inexplicable force of nature who could rise from a luminous improvisation at the keyboard to a leap over the furniture. He was forever drumming on things, tapping his feet, jabbering away, but who could grasp your hand and look at you with a profound, searching, and melancholy look in his blue eyes. Even in company there was often an air about Mozart of being not quite there. It was as if he lived onstage and off simultaneously, a character in life’s tragicomedy but also outside of it watching, studying, gathering material for the fabric of his art. Like Jan Swafford’s biographies Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Mozart is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: a man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, it’s nearly impossible to understand classical music’s origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself.
Download or read book Mozart Finds a Melody written by Stephen Costanza and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginative story about Mozart's many inspirations, now in paperback! Wolfgang Mozart must compose a new piano concerto to perform at the famous Burgtheatre in Vienna. But Mozart can't think of a note to write. When he hears his hungry pet starling sing out melodiously, his creativity begins to flow. Before he can put notes to paper, however, his muse escapes through the window, and Mozart is off on a frantic search to bring her back. Will Mozart find both his friend and song in time? Based on a true story about the famous composer and his beloved pet starling, this enchanting tale celebrates inspiration in any form it takes.
Download or read book Wolfgang Amad Mozart written by Georg Knepler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described in Germany as the 'most thought-provoking' book of the bicentennial year, Georg Knepler's acclaimed study of Mozart is now available in paperback. The book explores Mozart's life and works from many new perspectives, providing fresh insights into his music and the tempestuous times through which he lived. Based on a close reading of the family correspondence and a careful consideration of Mozart's entire musical output, the book sheds new light on the composer's creative psyche, his political leanings, his relation to the thoughts and currents of the Enlightenment, and the underlying basis of his musical expression.
Download or read book Mozart and His Operas written by David Cairns and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted music critic weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole.
Download or read book Mozart s Piano Music written by William Kinderman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mozart's emergence as a mature artist coincides with the rise to prominence of the piano, an instrument that came alive under his fingers and served as medium for many of his finest compositions. In Mozart's Piano Music, William Kinderman reconsiders common assumptions about Mozart's life and art while offering comprehensive and incisive commentary on the solo music and concertos. After placing Mozart's pianistic legacy in its larger biographical and cultural context, Kinderman addresses the lively gestural and structural aspects of Mozart's musical language and explores the nature of his creative process. Incorporating the most recent research throughout this encompassing study, Kinderman expertly surveys each of the major genres of the keyboard music, including the four-hand and two-piano works. Beyond examining issues such as Mozart's earliest childhood compositions, his musical rhetoric and expression, the social context of his Viennese concertos, and affinities between his piano works and operas, Kinderman's main emphasis falls on detailed discussion of selected individual compositions.
Download or read book Mozart written by Paul Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his music As he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson’s focus is on the music—Mozart’s wondrous output of composition and his uncanny gift for instrumentation. Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart’s gift and skill with instruments was also remarkable as he mastered all of them except the harp. For example, no sooner had the clarinet been invented and introduced than Mozart began playing and composing for it. In addition to his many insights into Mozart’s music, Johnson also challenges the many myths that have followed Mozart, including those about the composer’s health, wealth, religion, and relationships. Always engaging, Johnson offers readers and music lovers a superb examination of Mozart and his glorious music, which is still performed every day in concert halls and opera houses around the world.
Download or read book Mozart written by Peter Gay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the eighteenth-century Austrian composer
Download or read book Mozart written by Howard Chandler Robbins Landon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of 1791: Mozarts Last Year and general editor of The Mozart Compendium, this international bestseller has received widespread critical acclaim. Entertainingly and authoritatively written, and richly illustrated with contemporary paintings and engravings, it provides a vivid account of the last decade of Mozarts short but amazingly prolific career one of the most remarkable periods in the entire history of Western music.
Download or read book What to Listen for in Mozart written by Robert Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-06-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, What to Listen for in Mozart is Robert Harris' essential introduction to the world's most popular composer. An introduction to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart explores the essentials of his work, examining his place in the aristocratic society of the late eighteenth century, and discusses his life and death.
Download or read book Mozart written by Wolfgang Hildesheimer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this definitive biography, Wolfgang Hildesheimer demythologizes Mozart, revealing him as a flawed and puzzling human being, but a matchless artist. Hildesheimer's fresh approach to the music itself, his telling quotations from Mozart's letters (Mozart was one of the greatest and most outrageous of letter writers), and his sympathetic but unsentimental insights make this a remarkably readable portrait of one of the most popular composers of all time. Book jacket.
Download or read book Mozart for Guitar written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Schott Music. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mozart for Guitar' is the second volume in the Schott Composers' series which makes the most famous masterpieces accessible to guitar players thanks to special arrangements for the guitar. Pupils, students and music lovers are of course interested in getting to know better both original guitar music and famous works and their music. The guitar moves the music into a tonal area which gives the music a rather intimate and sometimes dreamy character. The ideal album for guitar-playing Mozart lovers!
Download or read book The Story of Mozart written by Helen Loeb Kaufmann and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boyhood of Mozart, as child prodigy at the various royal courts of Europe. Before he died at the age of thirty-six he had left the world a great heritage of music.
Download or read book The Best of Mozart written by Samuel Applebaum and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents are: * Adagio (K. 170) * Allegretto (K. 156) * Allegro (K. 80) * Allegro (K. 155) * Allegro (K. 157) * Divertimento (K. 138) * Entr'acte (K. 138) * Fugue (K. 168) * Melody (K. 155) * Menuetto (K. 421) * Menuetto (K. 465) * Menuetto and Trio (K. 298) * Presto (K. 156) * Presto (K. 157) * Presto (K. 160) * Rondo (K. 80) * Rondo (K. 159)
Download or read book Mozart His Character His Work written by Alfred Einstein and published by New York ; London [etc.] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1945 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture of Mozart's "character and of the personalities and events that exercised a decisive influence upon it. The works that are mentioned are not described, but characterized from the point of view of their time and--so far as possible--of our relation to them." --Preface.
Download or read book Mozart and His Piano Concertos written by Cuthbert Girdlestone and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic of music criticism provides detailed studies of 23 of Mozart's piano concertos, offering 417 musical examples and authoritative information on the works' form, tone, style, and balance.
Download or read book Mozart written by Robert Gutman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mozart: A Cultural Biography is a fresh interpretation of a musical genius, meticulously researched and gracefully written. It places Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. Even as he delves into philosophic and aesthetic questions, Robert Gutman keeps in sight, clearly and firmly, the composer and his works. He discusses the major genres in which Mozart worked - chamber music; liturgical, theatre, and keyboard compositions; concerto; symphony; opera; and oratorio. All of these riches unfold within the framework of the composer's brief but remarkable life.With Gutman's informed and sensitive handling, Mozart emerges in a light more luminous than in previous renderings. The composer was an affectionate and generous man to family and friends, self-deprecating, witty, winsome, but also an austere moralist, incisive and purposeful.Mozart is both an extraordinary portrait of a man in his time and a brilliant distillation of musical thought.
