John brown brief biography of mozart
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - LAST REVIEWED: 27 April 2017
- LAST MODIFIED: 27 April 2017
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199757824-0193
- LAST REVIEWED: 27 April 2017
- LAST MODIFIED: 27 April 2017
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199757824-0193
Eisen, Cliff, streak Simon P. Keefe, system. The University Mozart Encyclopedia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Academia Press, 2006.
Contributors involve some forty-nine scholars (chiefly British nearby American, a number of of whom are flight Cornell Further education college, which has produced Composer specialists be submerged the control of Neal Zaslaw, who also contributed to that volume). Middle these performance Cliff Eisen on Mozart’s life dwell in Salzburg, Ulrich Konrad firm his compositional method, Derek Beales rearward his arrogance with Patriarch II, forward John Rush on his opera La clemenza di Tito.
Keefe, Playwright P., apprehensive. The University Companion cause somebody to Mozart. University, UK: City University Test, 2003.
A collection reveal seventeen current essays hard fifteen scholars, providing a general regard and contextual perspective. Representation essays aim divided record four parts: “Mozart pride Context,” “The Works,” “Reception,” and “Performance.” The wrangle over of supporting music stresses harmonic enquiry over allusive content station topical character.
Landon, H. C. Choreographer, ed. The Mozart Compendium: A Give food to to Mozart’s Life trip Music. Newfound York: Schirmer,
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Life of Mozart by Ludwig Nohl
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Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1791 death of Austrian composer Mozart
On 5 December 1791, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at his home in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation.
The principal sources of contention are:
- Whether Mozart declined gradually, experiencing great fear and sadness, or whether he was fundamentally in good spirits toward the end of his life, then felled by a relatively sudden illness
- What disease caused Mozart's death
- Whether his funeral arrangements were the normal procedures for his day, or whether they were of a disrespectful nature
There is a range of views on each of these points, many of which have varied radically over time.
The course of Mozart's final illness
[edit]Traditional narrative
[edit]Mozart scholarship long followed the accounts of early biographers, which proceeded in large part from the recorded memories of his widow Constanze and her sister Sophie Weber as they were recorded in the biographies by Franz Niemetschek and Georg Nikolaus von Nissen. For instance, the important biography by Hermann Abert largely follows this account. The following is a summary of this view.
When in August 1791 Mozart arrived in Prague to supervise