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Mozart: A Cultural Biography
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Mozart: A Cultural Biography Hardcover - 1999

by Gutman, Robert W

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.
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  • Title Mozart: A Cultural Biography
  • Author Gutman, Robert W
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 992
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York
  • Date November 29, 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # C10K-00786
  • ISBN 9780151004829 / 015100482X
  • Weight 2.91 lbs (1.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.57 x 6.55 x 1.85 in (24.31 x 16.64 x 4.70 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Composers - Austria
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99031953
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

This major work places Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. Even as he delves into philosophic and aesthetic questions, Robert Gutman keeps in sight, clearly and firmly, the composer and his works. He discusses the major genres in which Mozart worked-chamber music; liturgical, theater, and keyboard compositions; concerto; symphony; opera; and oratorio. All of these riches unfold within the framework of the composer's brief but remarkable life. With Gutman's informed and sensitive handling, Mozart emerges in a light more luminous than in previous renderings. The composer was an affectionate and generous man to family and friends, self-deprecating, witty, winsome, but also an austere moralist, incisive and purposeful. Mozart is both an extraordinary portrait of a man in his time and a brilliant distillation of musical thought.

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