Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

Contents

• 1. Outline of a remarkable life;
• 2. From child prodigy to genius;
• 3. 'Expressing convictions and thoughts ... in notes';
• 4. Mozart's reading habits;
• 5. Making things significant;
• 6. The major-minor opposition;
• 7. Mozart in the eyes of posterity;
• 8. A turning point;
• 9. Taking stock of Salzburg;
• 10. The move to Vienna;
• 11. Other remarkable lives;
• 12. 'Mozart of the Wohltatigkeit';
• 13. Convictions and thoughts: a closer look;
• 14. A traditionalist?;
• 15. The question of imitation;
• 16. Zerlina and the three modes of music;
• 17. The 'genuine natural forms' of music;
• 18. Musical portraits;
• 19. How opera was dramatised by the symphony;
• 20. How instrumental music was semanticized by vocal music;
• 21. Conclusions from endings;
• 22. Building blocks and principles of construction;
• 23. 'A hostile fate - though only in Vienna';
• 24. Mozart in his day and ours.