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Mozart in Context 1107181054, 9781107181052
Table of contents :  •   By Samuel J. Stephens I. Among Mozart’s most mature works of art, With the apprentice we must begin, •
Contents
Illustrations
Tables
Musical Examples
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
Part  inom Personality, Work, Worldview
 1. Personal Relationships
 2. Learning and Teaching
 3. Compositional Methods
 4. Religious Views
 5. Aesthetic Views
 6. Mozart and Contemporary Composers
 7. Mozart and Freemasonry
 8. Mozart Iconography
Part II Towns, Cities, Countries
 9. Salzburg
 10. Vienna
 11. Germany
 12. Italy
 13. France
 14. Prague
 15. London
Part III Career Contexts and Environments
 16. Patronage
 17. Mozart as Impresario
 18. Publishing
 19.  teatralisk Life in Mozart’s Vienna
 20. Mozart and Finances
Part IV Performers and Performance
 21. Instrumentalists in Salzburg and Abroad
 22. Instruments and Instrumentalists in Vienna
 23. The Opera Singers in Vienna
 24. Mozart’s Italian and German Singers
 25. Mozart the Performer-Composer
 26. Instrumental Performance Practice
 27. Vocal Performance Practice
Part V  steg-för-steg instruktion 
 Whence did genius from mere prodigy part?
 How, from style enlightened and humane
 (Facile and fluent, witty and urbane),
 Was mighty Jupiter unbound and loose?
 It sudden struck me like a bolt of Zeus
 How that gentler manner had turned and set,
 To meet the old gods, and meet them well met.
 In whom the teaching-master seeks his twin.
 Succeeded on the Holy Roman Throne
 From across the border by older bone:
 Emperor Joseph was dead and done,
 Emperor Leopold was Francis’s son.
 Music and Masonry his unconcern,
 He set his father’s kingdom stern.
 Many that depended on the royal whim
 Were set marooned or left to swim.
 Franz Xaver Sussmayr, orphaned once more,
 (Adopted before by his knock on a door)
 Rushed to his coffee mates at their usual place,
 A frantic confusion upon his face.
 “My master Mozart is passed away,
 My adopted father, greatest of his day.
 Now  Mozart