The New Grove Mozart - Softcover
A child prodigy who performed throughout Europe in his early years, this Austrian composer excelled in every medium of his time, including chamber music for strings, the piano concerto, and opera. Along with his contemporaries Haydn and Beethoven, he is one of the composers who brought the Viennese Classical style to its height. Mozart's mature music, distiniguished by its melodic beauty, formal perfection, and richness of harmony and texture, is deeply colored by Italian opera though rooted in Austrian and south German traditions. He is widely regarded as the most universal composer in the history of Western music. >The New Grove Mozart is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to one of the world most beloved composers.
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When the publishers of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians set out to revise their monumental reference work in the 1970s, they commissioned new biographies of many composers. They then extracted some of those biographies from the finished product, added some details to make them a more interesting sit-down read, and issued them as separate volumes. Unlike the complete Grove, this biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is both portable and affordable. Nearly one third of its length is devoted to a listing of his works, arranged by type (opera, sacred) and date. There are many biographies of Mozart on the market; this one makes a good starting place and handy reference.
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Cliff Eisen is Reader in Historical Musicology at King's College, London.
Stanley Sadie is editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition. He lives in the United Kingdom.
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- PublisherGrove Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0312233256
- ISBN 13 9780312233259
- BindingPaperback
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- Number of pages176
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