The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia

Cambridge University Press, 1/4/2006
EAN 9780521856591, ISBN10: 0521856590

Hardcover, 674 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 4.5 cm
Language: English

Mozart's enduring popularity, among music lovers as a composer and among music historians as a subject for continued study, lies at the heart of The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. This reference book functions both as a starting point for information on specific works, people, places and concepts as well as a summation of current thinking about Mozart. The extended articles on genres reflect the latest in scholarship and new ways of thinking about the works while the articles on people and places provide historical framework, as well as interpretation. It also includes a series of thematic articles that cast a wide net over the eighteenth century and Mozart's relationship to it: these include Austria, Germany, aesthetics, travel, Enlightenment, Mozart as a reader and contemporaneous medicine, among others. The worklist provides the most up-to-date account in English of the authenticity and chronology of Mozart's compositions.

List of contributors
Preface
Headword list
A-Z general entries
Appendix 1. Worklist
Appendix 2. Mozart movies (theatrical releases)
Appendix 3. Mozart institutions
Appendix 4. Mozart organizations
Appendix 5. Mozart websites.

'All of the entries are written in clear, accessible prose and are well-organized, usually with multiple subheadings and capitalized cross references. ... This first resource to cover both Mozart's life and oeuvre is a browser's delight ... An indispensable addition to all collections.' Library Journal