Mozart: The 'Jupiter' Symphony (Cambridge Music Handbooks) - Softcover

Sisman, Elaine R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521409241 ISBN 13: 9780521409247

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This guide to Mozart's last and most celebrated symphony explores the historical background and aesthetic contexts of the work as well as the music itself. The early chapters examine the expectations of the symphony in Mozart's Vienna, Mozart's career in 1788 (the year of the three last symphonies), and the changing reception of the "Jupiter" over the subsequent two hundred years. A separate chapter is devoted to each movement of the symphony with musical discussion illuminated by a broad array of topics.

About this title

Book Description:

The historical background and aesthetic contexts of the work as well as the music itself are explored in this guide to Mozart's last and most celebrated symphony. Separate chapters devoted to each movement of the symphony interweave musical discussion with a broad array of topics.

Review:

"...it is a delight to find such a text immediately setting about debunking the kind of canonical valorization which is our critical heritage since the Back Revival. No mere collection of empirical data here, however, as Sisman links audience rowdiness and aestheic attitudes with unproblematic ease; a critical turn which should be less alien to more writers." Steve Sweeney-Turner, The Musical Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521409241
• ISBN 13: 9780521409247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132
• Editor: Rushton Julian