Life of Mozart: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reissue, 8/22/2013
EAN 9781108064835, ISBN10: 1108064833
Paperback, 490 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 3.1 cm
Language: English
Originally published in German
In terms of musical composition, all but the first five of his thirty-five years were astoundingly productive for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91). A stream of glorious symphonies, piano concertos, chamber music, operas and the sublime but unfinished Requiem poured from his pen. German philologist and archaeologist Otto Jahn (1813–69) was inspired to write a scholarly biography of Mozart following a conversation at Mendelssohn's funeral in 1847. He immersed himself in intensive research on the composer and his music, publishing the first edition of this landmark work in four volumes between 1856 and 1859. A second edition followed in 1867, incorporating new material and making use of Köchel's 1862 catalogue of Mozart's works. It is from this edition that Pauline D. Townsend made her three-volume English translation, first published in 1882. Volume 2 covers Mozart the man, the break with Colloredo, his move to Vienna, marriage, and Freemasonry.
18. French opera
19. Paris, 1778
20. The return home
21. Court service in Salzburg
22. Idomeneo
23. Release
24. First attempts in Vienna
25. Die Entführung aus dem Serail
26. Courtship
27. Married life
28. Mozart's family and friends
29. Social intercourse
30. Van Swieten and classical music
31. Mozart and Freemasonry
32. Mozart as an artist
33. Mozart's pianoforte music.