The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart - Softcover

Nicholas Kenyon

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9780571223763: The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571223761 ISBN 13: 9780571223763

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2005

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Why is Mozart the best known and most popular of all the great Western classical composers? At the 250th anniversary of his birth, his reputation stands higher than ever before. This lively new pocket guide assesses what Mozart means to us today, and explores why his music is so universally loved. This guide provides all you need to listen to and enjoy Mozart's music, and will also introduce a new generation of concert-goers and record-listeners to his life and key works, from opera to symphony, concerto to song. In a crisp, sharp style, with recommendations of good recordings, Nicholas Kenyon shows how Mozart's music has communicated with unique power across so many generations.

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About the Author:

Nicholas Kenyon has been Director of the BBC Proms since 1996. He was a music critic for the New Yorker, The Times and the Observer, and was Controller, BBC Radio 3, from 1992 to 1998, responsible for the award-winning Radio 3 seasons Fairest Isle and Sounding the Century. He wrote the history of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and edited the influential volume Authenticity and Early Music. He is now Controller, BBC Proms, Live Events and Television Classical Music, and was appointed a CBE in 2001. He lives in London with his wife and four children.

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