Mozart - Softcover

Gutman, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0712664831 ISBN 13: 9780712664837

Publisher: Pimlico, 2001

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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.

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"[M]eticulously researched and gracefully written." (Trevor Rees-Jones Sunday Telegraph)

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'A work of rigorous investigation and historical accuracy.an excellent biography, perhaps definitive of its kind.' Henry Sheen, New Statesman

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