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Mozart and the Enlightenment: Truth, Virtue, and Beauty in Mozart's Operas
Contributor(s): Till, Nicholas (Author)

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ISBN: 0393313956     ISBN-13: 9780393313956
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $38.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 1994
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Individual Composer & Musician
- Music | Genres & Styles - Opera
Dewey: 782.1
LCCN: 00000000
Physical Information: 1.18" H x 6.14" W x 9.26" L (1.35 lbs) 400 pages
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: New York Times 03/31/1996 pg. 28
 
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In this fascinating study of Mozart's operas, Nicholas Till shows that the composer was not a divine idiot but an artist whose work was informed by the ideas and discoveries of the Enlightenment. Examining the dramatic emergence of a modern society in eighteenth-century Austria, the author draws on such famous writers and thinkers of the time as Richardson, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Goethe, Schiller, and Blake to reappraise the history and meaning of the Enlightenment and of Mozart's role within it. He evokes for us the Vienna of the 1780s, a world of intense intellectual argument, political debate, and religious inquiry, which deeply influenced the philosophical content of Mozart's operas. From the early La Finta Giardiniera, based on Richardson's Pamela, to Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, designed to support the political aims of Emperor Joseph II; from Le nozze di Figaro, a profound exploration of marriage as a human and social institution, to the post-Enlightenment Zauberflote, the operas bear witness to the era's changing views and to Mozart's own quest for personal and artistic identity.
 
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