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Author: Juliet Waldron
Publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory
Published: 2004-12
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0759943109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on original sources, including family letters and scholarly biographies this is a biographical novel about Constanze, Moazrt's wife.
Author: Agnes Selby
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 3990121170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Constanze, the wife of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, was not the foolish and self-interested individual of popular opinion, much of which is based on the views of Mozart's father, who believed that his son had chosen an inappropriate partner. This strong-minded woman was, however, to be of critical support to her beloved husband. From a family of accomplished musicians, she was possessed of a fine voice and sang in public performances of a number of Mozart's works, both before and after his death. She bore him six children, of whom two survived childhood. Her business acumen was such that after his death she was largely responsible for keeping his music before the public, organising concerts, securing the accurate publication of many of his works, including the Requiem, and acquiring patronage from the aristocracy. Her second marriage to the Dane, Georg Nikolaus Nissen, continued a life story which is a rich example of self-sufficiency and competence in an era when a woman in business was a rarity. Importantly, this book restores the reputation of a woman much maligned by history. Revised edition
Author: Jane Glover
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0330470507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Juliet Waldron
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781772990188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mozart's wife aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Maturing from child to wife to hard-headed widow, Konstanze paid her husband's debts, provided for their children and relentlessly mythologized her brilliant husband, yet she never marked his grave.
Author: H. C. Robbins Landon
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780500281079
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The premature death of Mozart is the subject of 1791, a study based upon Professor Landon's unrivalled understanding of source material relating to Mozart, his music and the events that became an enigma, a tragedy and a source of great controversy.
Author: William Stafford
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1993-10-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780804722223
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an ambitious attempt to separate what is actually known (and can be known) about Mozart from the many myths and legends that have grown up about his life and character, notably the circumstances of his death and his alleged immaturity, drinking, extravagance, womanizing, unreliability, and professional failure.
Author: William Stafford
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1991-10-23
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1349125164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There is a macabre fascination in the spectacle of one so brilliant, dying so young, in such tragic circumstances. Was Mozart poisoned? Was he irresponsible and childish, dying from debauchery and dissipation? Did his wife contribute to his downfall? Was he driven to destruction by being ostracised as a rebel? Did his genius render him incapable of normal human contact and worldly prudence? Did he die because he had accomplished his mission as an artist and burnt himself out? Was he the victim of a run of bad luck? From 1791 to the present such stories have flourished; this book examines their development and the evidence for them.
Author: Robert Spaethling
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2005-12-17
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0393247961
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A wonderful collection that gives Mozart a voice as a son, husband, brother and friend." —New York Times Book Review "Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authority all shine out from these letters."—Sunday Times (London). " In Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life, Robert Spaethling presents "Mozart in all the rawness of his driving energies" (Spectator), preserved in the "zany, often angry effervescence" of his writing (Observer). Where other translators have ignored Mozart's atrocious spelling and tempered his foul language, "Robert Spaethling's new translations are lively and racy, and do justice to Mozart's restlessly inventive mind" (Daily Mail). Carefully selected and meticulously annotated, this collection of letters "should be on the shelves of every music lover" (BBC Music Magazine).
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-03
Total Pages: 1081
ISBN-13: 1349106542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study has been revised to include new finds about the composition dates of several Mozart works. A new bibliography and a collation with the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe edition of letters, edited by O.E.Deutsch, W.A.Bauer and J.H.Eibl: Baerenreiter, 1962-75 is also included.
