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Best-Loved String Quartets - Three Divertimenti, Plus the "Spring," "Dissonance," and "Prussian No. 1" Quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Music Scores
Category: Music | Series: Dover Chamber Music Scores Ser.
A popular genre in the 18th century, divertimenti offered listeners a lighthearted ""diversion"" at social functions. Mozart wrote these three pieces for string quartet in Salzburg in 1772. The three-movement Italian-style compositions require only wind parts to assume another form, hence their common d ...Show more
Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Category: Film | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Following the great successes of Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte was the last of the three operas that Mozart wrote with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Although well received at its premiere in Vienna in 1790, it was then largely neglected until the mid-twentieth century. Its comic ...Show more
Cosi Fan Tutte by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
"It was a treat so truly intellectual that every ear and every breast, susceptible of harmony and of impression, was gratified to a degree beyond our power to describe." Thus reads one of the first London reviews of Così fan tutte. Its enigmatic mixture of a detached experiment in human foibles and a st ...Show more
Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Gary Khan (Volume Editor); Kenneth Chalmers (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Die Zauberflöte had its premiere at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna on 30th September 1791, less than ten weeks before Mozart's death. It has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular of all his works and has enchanted generations of opera-goers of all ages. In a fairy-tale allegory imbued wi ...Show more
IDOMENEO by MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS
Category: Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was twenty-four years old, and the opera was described by Albert Einstein as 'one of those works that even a genius like Mozart could write only once in his life'. It is one of most astonishing achievements of an altogether astonishing career. In this newly commissioned gui ...Show more
Le Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Gary Khan (Volume Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Le nozze di Figaro is one of Mozart's best-loved and most enduring works. The first of the three operas he wrote with Lorenzo da Ponte and based on Beaumarchais's play, it established the thirty-year-old Mozart as an opera composer of the very first rank. Its combination of wit, acute psychological obse ...Show more
Mozart: Variations by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Category: Music
This Urtext edition of Mozart's variations for piano is drawn from the first editions of the works as well as the contemporary handwritten copies of the works. The term Variationen was given as a title to all pieces. Information concerning the origin of the theme of the given work can be found in the in ...Show more
My Dearest Father : Little Black Classic by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 51
'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.' A selection of personal correspondence between Mozart and his most important mentor and supporter, his father. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics ce ...Show more
Step by Step: Mozart - 44 Piano Pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Category: Music
Step-by-step to the top - this is the idea behind Konemann Music's piano-teaching series. This is not a dogmatic piano tutor, but a collection of performance pieces, each selected for a particular didactic purpose and dedicated to a specific problem with this collection of Mozart's easier piano works, s ...Show more
The Magic Flute by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Anthony Besch (Translator); Michael Geliot (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
With his last opera Mozart created a piece of theatre which defies categorization. In theory it is a Singspiel, a mixture of songs and dialogue, in which the spectacular effects and comedy fit naturally: they appeal today as much as they did when it first opened in a popular Viennese theatre two hundred ...Show more
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