The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia

Author: Cliff Eisen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-10-11

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 9780521712378

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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.

The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia
The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia

Author: Caryl Clark

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9781107129016

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For well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunner or point of comparison. And yet, unlike many other canonic composers, his music has remained a fixture in the repertoire from his day until ours. What do we need to know now in order to understand Haydn and his music? With over eighty entries focused on ideas and seven longer thematic essays to bring these together, this distinctive and richly illustrated encyclopedia offers a new perspective on Haydn and the many cultural contexts in which he worked and left his indelible mark during the Enlightenment and beyond. Contributions from sixty-seven scholars and performers in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, capture the vitality of Haydn studies today - its variety of perspectives and methods - and ultimately inspire further exploration of one of western music's most innovative and influential composers.

Mozart in Context
Mozart in Context

Author: Simon P. Keefe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-12-20

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1316850838

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The vibrant intellectual, social and political climate of mid eighteenth-century Europe presented opportunities and challenges for artists and musicians alike. This book focuses on Mozart the man and musician as he responds to different aspects of that world. It reveals his views on music, aesthetics and other matters; on places in Austria and across Europe that shaped his life; on career contexts and environments, including patronage, activities as an impresario, publishing, theatrical culture and financial matters; on engagement with performers and performance, focusing on Mozart's experiences as a practicing musician; and on reception and legacy from his own time through to the present day. Probing diverse Mozartian contexts in a variety of ways, the contributors reflect the vitality of existing scholarship and point towards areas primed for further study. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of late eighteenth-century music and for Mozart aficionados and music lovers in general.

The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia

Author: David Crystal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-04-16

Total Pages: 1264

ISBN-13: 9780521630993

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The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia is the authoritative single-volume reference work on people, both living and dead. In addition to its thousand or more pages of A-Z entries, the book offers an invaluable Ready Reference section with lists of political leaders and rulers, Nobel Prizewinners, patron saints, sports champions and many more. Acclaimed on its first publication in 1994 as a new kind of biographical reference book, the Encyclopedia is now established as a reliable source of information on over 26,000 people, fully cross-referenced. The book's international coverage and devotion to important figures - both historical and contemporary - in science and the arts as well as sports and popular personalities make it unique. This Second Edition has been comprehensively updated and supplemented with new entries.

Mozart
Mozart

Author: Marcus Weeks

Publisher: National Geographic World Hist

Published: 2013-07-09

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1426314515

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An introduction to the life and music of the composer and musician, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia
The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia

Author: Annette Landgraf

Publisher:

Published: 2009-11-26

Total Pages: 872

ISBN-13:

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From Arias to Zadok the Priest - over 700 entries by international experts explore all aspects of Handel's life and work.

Mozart's Music of Friends
Mozart's Music of Friends

Author: Edward Klorman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1107093651

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This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.

Mozart
Mozart

Author: SimonP. Keefe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 1351557920

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This volume of essays on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reflects scholarly advances made over the last thirty years. The studies are broad and focused, demonstrating a large number of viewpoints, methodologies and orientations and the material spans a wide range of subject areas, including biography, vocal music, instrumental music and performance. Written by leading researchers from Europe and North America, these previously published articles and book chapters are representative of both the most frequently discussed and debated issues in Mozart studies and the challenging, exciting nature of Mozart scholarship in general. The volume is essential reading for researchers, students and scholars of Mozart's music.

Mozart
Mozart

Author: Roye E. Wates

Publisher: Amadeus Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1574671898

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(Amadeus). Mozart: An Introduction to the Music, the Man, and the Myths explores in detail 20 of the composer's major works in the context of his tragically brief life and the turbulent times in which he lived. Addressed to non-musicians seeking to deepen their technical appreciation for his music while learning more about Mozart the man than the caricature portrayed in the 1986 movie Amadeus , this book offers extensive biographical and historical background debunking many well-established Mozart myths along with guided study of compositions representing every genre of 18th-century music: opera, concerto, symphony, church music, divertimento and serenade, sonata, and string quartet. Author Roye E. Wates, a Mozart specialist, has taught music history to thousands of non-musicians, both undergraduates and adults, as a Professor of Music at Boston University and from 2002-2004 as director of Boston University's Adult Music Seminar at Tanglewood, summer residence of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mozart: An Introduction to the Music, the Man, and the Myths provides a unique combination of biographical detail, up-to-date research, detailed musical analyses, and clear definitions of terms. Amateurs as well as more advanced musicians will gain a greater understanding of Mozart's encyclopedic mastery.