Mozart and the Enlightenment
Subtitle: truth, virtue, and beauty in Mozart's operas
By: Nicholas Till
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780393313956
Subjects: Opera; Enlightenment
Notes: First published in 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-361) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : enlightenment and the eighteenth century; title: Part one. Salzburg and the years of travel, 1756-1781; title: The education of a bourgeois artist; title: La finta giardiniera; title: Opera and the enlightenment; title: The German artist; title: Zaide; title: Idomeneo; title: Part two. Vienna : the years of optimism, 1781-1786; title: Vienna and the enlightenment; title: Mozart's arrival in Vienna; title: Die Entführung aus dem Serail; title: Freemasonry and the Catholic enlightenment; title: The return to Italian opera; title: Le nozze di Figaro; title: The meaning of classicism; title: Part three. The years of retreat, 1786-1791; title: The collapse of Josephinism; title: Don Giovanni; title: Così fan tutte; title: La clemenza di Tito; title: Die Zauberflöte; title: Epilogue.