The Other Mozart
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Author |
: Walter E. Smith |
Publisher |
: AuthorHouse |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2004-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781418407957 |
ISBN-13 |
: 141840795X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Black Mozart by : Walter E. Smith
Long before the word Super Star was coined, Saint-Georges was the original. Many people throughout history have been famous for one reason or another. Many have made great contributions to civilization and left great legacies. Their paintings and sculptures we still admire. Their discoveries have made our lives better; their music we still play and sing, but no one in history was as talented in so many areas as Saint-Georges. For a time, he was the greatest fencer in the world. He was an exceptional violinist and along with his teacher, Gossec, he pioneered the composition of the String Quartet. Even Mozart came to Paris to study this new form of music. Saint-Georges was an unequaled equestrian, an exceptional marksman and an elegant dancer. The wealthy copied the way he dressed, and the common people admired him as he walked through the streets, and whispered his name. He was a true Renaissance man and a super star in the Paris of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. What is even more remarkable was the fact that he was a mulatto.
Author |
: Rita Charbonnier |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2007-10-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307405623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307405621 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mozart's Sister by : Rita Charbonnier
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, affectionately called Nannerl by her family, could play the piano with an otherworldly skill from the time she was a child, when her tiny hands seemed too small to encompass a fifth. At the tender age of five, she gave her first public performance, amazing the assembled gentlemen and ladies with the beautiful music she created. But her moment of glory was cut short, for even as her father carried her around to receive their praise, her mother began laboring to bring a second child into the world. After hours of her mother’s pained cries and agonized shouts, which rang in Nannerl’s ears like a terrifying symphony, the child was born. They named him Wolfgang. Nannerl loved him instantly. As they grew, Wolfgang and his sister became inseparable, creating a fantasy world together and playing music the likes of which no one had ever heard. They were two sides of a single person, opposite in temperament—he lighthearted and charismatic, she shy and retiring—but equal in talent. Yet it was Wolfgang who carried their father’s dreams of glory. And as the siblings matured, Nannerl’s prodigious talent was brushed aside by her father. Instead of playing alongside her brother in the world’s great cities, she was forced to stop performing and become a provincial piano teacher to support Wolfgang’s career. Nannerl might have accepted this life in her brother’s shadow but for the appearance of a potential suitor who reawakened her passion for life, for love, for music—and who threatened to upset the delicate balance that kept the Mozart family in harmony. Mozart’s Sister draws you into the lush palaces and salons of eighteenth-century Europe and into the fascinating life of a woman who ultimately found a way to express her own genius.
Author |
: Jane Glover |
Publisher |
: Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2013-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780330470506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0330470507 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mozart's Women by : Jane Glover
Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women. He loved and respected them, composed for them, performed with them. This unique biography looks at his interaction with each, starting with his family (his mother, Maria Anna and beloved and talented sister, Nannerl), and his marriage (which brought his 'other family', the Weber sisters). His relationships with his artists are examined, in particular those of his operas, through whose characters Mozart gave voice to the emotions of women who were, like his entire female acquaintance, restrained by the conventions and structures of eighteenth-century society. This is their story as well as his -- and shows once again that a great part of the composer’s genius was in his understanding and musical expression of human nature. Evocative and beautifully written, Mozart’s Women illuminates the music, the man, and above all the women who inspired him. 'Jane Glover has pulled off a coup des livres with her fresh take on Mozart's life and work’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Readable, informative and moving...Her passion for the music shines through this touching, vividly told story' Sunday Times
Author |
: Audrey Ades |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022-02-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374314767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374314764 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis I Am Mozart, Too by : Audrey Ades
"A picture book biography about Maria Anna Mozart, Wolfgang's sister and a secret composer"--
Author |
: Leopold Mozart |
Publisher |
: Early Music |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: 019318513X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780193185135 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing by : Leopold Mozart
Leopold Mozart's Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing was the major work of its period on the violin and comparable in importance to Quantz's treatise on the flute and P.E. Bach's on the piano. This translation by Editha Knocker was the first to appear in English andremains scholarly and eminently readable.
Author |
: Barbara Nickel |
Publisher |
: Second Story Press |
Total Pages |
: 157 |
Release |
: 2019-03-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781772600902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1772600903 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mozart Girl by : Barbara Nickel
Nannerl Mozart’s twelfth-birthday wish is to become a famous composer. She’s already considered a brilliant musician, touring eighteenth-century Europe with her little brother, Wolfgang, and playing for queens and kings in the great courts. But Papa doesn’t take her seriously as a composer because she is a girl, Mama usually has a list of chores for her to do, and Wolfi manages to steal everyone’s attention. But Nannerl is not ready to give up her dream. Can she defy expectations and take control of her musical destiny?
Author |
: Philippe Sollers |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252035463 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252035461 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mysterious Mozart by : Philippe Sollers
Both a beguiling portrait of the artist and an idiosyncratic self-portrait of the author, Mysterious Mozart is Philippe Sollers's alternately oblique and searingly direct interpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's oeuvre and lasting mystique, audaciously reformulated for the postmodern age. With a mix of slang, abstractions, quotations, first- and third-person narratives, and blunt opinion, French writer and critic Philippe Sollers taps into Mozart's playful correspondence and the lesser-known pieces of his enormous repertoire to analyze the popularity and public perceptions of his music. Detailing Mozart's drive to continue producing masterpieces even when saddled with debt and riddled with illness and anxiety, Sollers powerfully and meticulously analyzes Mozart's seven last great operas using a psychoanalytical approach to the characters' relationships. As Sollers explores themes of constancy, prodigy, freedom, and religion, he offers up bits of his own history, revealing his affinity for the creative geniuses of the eighteenth century and a yearning to bring that era's utopian freedom to life in contemporary times. What emerges is an inimitable portrait of a man and a musician whose greatest gift is a quirky companionability, a warm and mysterious appeal that distinguishes Mozart from other great composers and is brilliantly echoed by Sollers's artful tangle of narrative.
Author |
: Roye E. Wates |
Publisher |
: Amadeus Press |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781574671896 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1574671898 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mozart by : Roye E. Wates
(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.
Author |
: Alfred Einstein |
Publisher |
: New York ; London [etc.] : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 524 |
Release |
: 1945 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015009769335 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mozart, His Character, His Work by : Alfred Einstein
A picture of Mozart's "character and of the personalities and events that exercised a decisive influence upon it. The works that are mentioned are not described, but characterized from the point of view of their time and--so far as possible--of our relation to them." --Preface.
Author |
: Blair Tindall |
Publisher |
: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2007-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781555847463 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1555847463 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mozart in the Jungle by : Blair Tindall
The memoir that inspired the two-time Golden Globe Award–winning comedy series: “Funny . . . heartbreaking . . . [and] utterly absorbing” (Lee Smith, New York Times–bestselling author of Guests on Earth). Oboist Blair Tindall recounts her decades-long professional career as a classical musician—from the recitals and Broadway orchestra performances to the secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth in the backbiting New York classical music scene, where musicians trade sexual favors for plum jobs and assignments in orchestras across the city. Tindall and her fellow journeymen musicians often play drunk, high, or hopelessly hungover, live in decrepit apartments, and perform in hazardous conditions—working-class musicians who schlep across the city between low-paying gigs, without health-care benefits or retirement plans, a stark contrast to the rarefied experiences of overpaid classical musician superstars. An incisive, no-holds-barred account, Mozart in the Jungle is the first true, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on backstage and in the orchestra pit. The book that inspired the Amazon Original series starring Gael García Bernal and Lola Kirke, this is “a fresh, highly readable and caustic perspective on an overglamorized world” (Publishers Weekly).