Wolfgang Amadè Mozart
Subtitle: essays on his life and his music
By: edited by Stanley Sadie.
Contributors: Sadie, Stanley.; Royal Musical Association Mozart Bicentenary Conference (1991 : London, England)
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Congresses
Description: This volume is a collection based on the Royal Musical Association's Mozart Conference, held at London's South Bank in August 1991. That conference, the largest and most international ever held by the Association, attracted an international group of speakers, and was open to the general public. The 26 papers included here have been substantially revised and extended for publication.

They provide a wide panorama of modern Mozart research, exploring aspects of his life and work hitherto obscure, interpreting his instrumental music, and describing the context, in Vienna and Salzburg, in which he lived and worked. Close attention is paid to different aspects of his operas, from Lucio Silla to La clemenza di Tito, with particular stress on the creative processes in the three great Da Ponte operas: Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the Royal Musical Association Mozart Bicentenary Conference, held in London, August 1991--Pref.