Mozart and other essays on courtly art
By: Norbert Elias ; edited by Eric R. Baker, Stephen Mennell
Contributors: Baker, Eric R.; Mennell, Stephen
Series: The collected works of Norbert Elias -- v. 12
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781906359096
Subjects: Courts and courtiers; Music
Description: In this volume Elias paints Mozart as a freelance artist and genius who did not sit comfortably with the social makeup of his own time. It also includes two essays on the courtly painter Watteau and on the fate of German baroque poetry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The fate of German baroque poetry; title: Watteau's pilgrimage to the island of love; title: Mozart : the sociology of a genius. He simply gave up and let go ; Bourgeois musicians in court society ; Mozart becomes a freelance artist ; Craftsmen's art and artists' art ; The artist in the human being ; The formative years of a genius ; Between two social worlds ; Mozart's revolt : from Salzburg to Vienna ; Emancipation completed : Mozart's marriage ; Appendix I. The drama of Mozart's life : a chronology in note form ; Appendix II. Two notes.