MOZART AND MAGDALENA - Concert For Magdalena (Novel) - Mozart & Magdalena (Screenplay)
Subtitle: Concert For Magdalena - novel ; Mozart & Magdalena - screenplay
Publisher: Xlibris - USA
Published: 2010
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 318
Description: as above
Table of contents: title: Concert for Magdalena: Concerto no. 27 for Piano and Orchestra B Flat Major,; title: (Catalogue Köchel 595). Debut: March 4, 1791 - Vienna; title: In these two works—a novel and a screenplay—which evoke the last years of; title: Mozart`s life, Gabriella Bianco invites us to live Mozart`s last love story with; title: Magdalena Pokorny, and develops it in a shocking way, through solid structures; title: and appealing and impeccable means—poetry, lyrics, drama, movie— through an; title: authentic mise en scène.; title: The title of the novel, Concert for Magdalena, intends to honor the never-ending; title: love between Mozart and Magdalena, not only to claim the eternal persistence of; title: love, but to remind it to those who have wanted to deny this story for their most; title: hidden and obscure interests. Through a deep emotional participation and with; title: immense compassion and pity, Gabriella Bianco makes us live again—through an; title: accurate technique —the implacable destiny which united Wolfgang A. Mozart and; title: Magdalena Pokorny, Constanze Weber and Franz Hofdemel.; title: The vertiginous rhythm marks the cadence of memories, in the distressing; title: articulation of events which presage the storm that will fall upon them with all its; title: fury - through the anxiety and tension which fill each episode, - all these elements; title: constitute the peculiar style of this passionate author, who deal with the baroque,; title: the classic, and the romantic in music and in life through her elegant taste and her; title: sensitive soul.; title: The author makes erudite references to music, from the concert to the sonata,; title: from the opera to the instrumental magic of Mozart, which speaks not only about; title: her profound love for Mozart, but also shows a deep empathy with Magdalena`s; title: destiny, in her adorable “eternal feminine.”; title: This is a manifest and marvelous aspect of Bianco`s style and of her testimonial fire; title: - through her own personal Sturm und Drang, together with Goethe’s, Schiller’s,; title: Hoelderlin’ s and Heine’s, - telling us about love beyond death, in this story of; title: incomparable tragic beauty.; title: CARLOS VERA, music critic, 2006 (Telam News Agency, Buenos Aires)