Mozart
- Author: Rushton, Julian
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Contents
- Contents
- 1 Salzburg and the Grand Tour: 1756-69
- 2 Works by an 'almost supernatural talent'
- 3 Italy: 1769-73
- 4 Opera seria: 'Fitting the clothes to the figure'
- 5 Salzburg: 1774-7
- 6 Sacred music: 'I have thoroughly acquainted myself with that style since my youth'
- 7 Mannheim and Paris: 1777-9
- 8 The 'Classical Style': Mozart and the keyboard
- 9 Salzburg and Munich: 1779-81
- 10 Orchestral music: 'the glorious effect of a symphony with flutes, oboes, and clarinets'
- 11 Vienna: 1781-5
- 12 Singspiel: 'music must never offend the ear'
- 13 Piano concertos and chamber music in 'the Land of the Clavier'
- 14 Vienna and Prague: 1786-8
- 15 Chamber music: 'The greatest composer known to me':
- 16 Opera buffa: 'Most important is that it must be really comic'
- 17 The last years: 1788-91
- 18 The last works: 'A rich possession, but even fairer hopes'
- 19 'de morte transire ad vitam'
- Appendices
- A Calendar / B List of Works / C Personalia / D Select Bibliography /
- Index