Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Subtitle: Undeserved Gift to Humanity
Publisher: Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9783034338462
Subjects: Music, history and criticism
Description: Mozart's ambivalent personality offers a key to a deeper understanding of his music. He could be merry, even boisterous, but from many of his works speaks a deep seriousness. Both mirth and melancholy stamp his being. His operatic music includes both the comic and the tragic. The present study treats the special character of his musical language and the relations between his personality and his multiform oeuvre. Its mission is to grasp the peculiarities of his operatic work, his opere serie, opere buffe and singspiels. The chapter "The Program in the Master Overtures" initiates the series of semantic analyses the author has pursued in other books. In the 19th century, it was fashionable to compare Mozart to Raffael. But the comparison is askew, as the graceful is only one side of his personality.