Constanze Mozarts Beloved

Author : Agnes Selby
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
ISBN 13 : 3990121170
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constanze, Mozart's Beloved written by Agnes Selby and published by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constanze, the wife of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, was not the foolish and self-interested individual of popular opinion, much of which is based on the views of Mozart's father, who believed that his son had chosen an inappropriate partner. This strong-minded woman was, however, to be of critical support to her beloved husband. From a family of accomplished musicians, she was possessed of a fine voice and sang in public performances of a number of Mozart's works, both before and after his death. She bore him six children, of whom two survived childhood. Her business acumen was such that after his death she was largely responsible for keeping his music before the public, organising concerts, securing the accurate publication of many of his works, including the Requiem, and acquiring patronage from the aristocracy. Her second marriage to the Dane, Georg Nikolaus Nissen, continued a life story which is a rich example of self-sufficiency and competence in an era when a woman in business was a rarity. Importantly, this book restores the reputation of a woman much maligned by history. Revised edition

Author : Heinz Gärtner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constanze Mozart written by Heinz Gärtner and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om Constanze Mozarts (1762-1842) liv efter ægtefællen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts (1761-1826) død

Author : Klemens Diez
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. : Queenston, Ont. : Edwin Mellem Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constanze, Formerly Widow of Mozart written by Klemens Diez and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : Queenston, Ont. : Edwin Mellem Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will do much to improve the reputation of Constanze Mozart, who has been vilified as having been an unworthy wife to one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time and has been blamed for his poverty and his less-than-glorious, premature death. Although a work of fiction and historical surmise, Constanze, Formerly Widow of Mozart stays close enough to the sparse biographical details of Constanze's life that the book has a tone of veracity and authenticity that is augmented by Malloy's footnotes and afterword.

Author : Renate Welsh
Publisher : Ariadne Press (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constanze Mozart written by Renate Welsh and published by Ariadne Press (CA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the death of her husband, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Constanze reflects on her long life.

Author : Jane Glover
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330470507
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart's Women written by Jane Glover and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women. He loved and respected them, composed for them, performed with them. This unique biography looks at his interaction with each, starting with his family (his mother, Maria Anna and beloved and talented sister, Nannerl), and his marriage (which brought his 'other family', the Weber sisters). His relationships with his artists are examined, in particular those of his operas, through whose characters Mozart gave voice to the emotions of women who were, like his entire female acquaintance, restrained by the conventions and structures of eighteenth-century society. This is their story as well as his -- and shows once again that a great part of the composer’s genius was in his understanding and musical expression of human nature. Evocative and beautifully written, Mozart’s Women illuminates the music, the man, and above all the women who inspired him. 'Jane Glover has pulled off a coup des livres with her fresh take on Mozart's life and work’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Readable, informative and moving...Her passion for the music shines through this touching, vividly told story' Sunday Times

Author : Juliet Waldron
Publisher : Hard Shell Word Factory
ISBN 13 : 0759943109
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart's Wife written by Juliet Waldron and published by Hard Shell Word Factory. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on original sources, including family letters and scholarly biographies this is a biographical novel about Constanze, Moazrt's wife.

Author : Robert Spaethling
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247961
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life written by Robert Spaethling and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-12-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful collection that gives Mozart a voice as a son, husband, brother and friend." —New York Times Book Review "Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authority all shine out from these letters."—Sunday Times (London). " In Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life, Robert Spaethling presents "Mozart in all the rawness of his driving energies" (Spectator), preserved in the "zany, often angry effervescence" of his writing (Observer). Where other translators have ignored Mozart's atrocious spelling and tempered his foul language, "Robert Spaethling's new translations are lively and racy, and do justice to Mozart's restlessly inventive mind" (Daily Mail). Carefully selected and meticulously annotated, this collection of letters "should be on the shelves of every music lover" (BBC Music Magazine).

Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062433598
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart written by Jan Swafford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious. He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all things pleasurable and fun. Mozart was known to be an inexplicable force of nature who could rise from a luminous improvisation at the keyboard to a leap over the furniture. He was forever drumming on things, tapping his feet, jabbering away, but who could grasp your hand and look at you with a profound, searching, and melancholy look in his blue eyes. Even in company there was often an air about Mozart of being not quite there. It was as if he lived onstage and off simultaneously, a character in life’s tragicomedy but also outside of it watching, studying, gathering material for the fabric of his art. Like Jan Swafford’s biographies Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Mozart is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: a man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, it’s nearly impossible to understand classical music’s origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself.

Author : SimonP. Keefe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557920
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart written by SimonP. Keefe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reflects scholarly advances made over the last thirty years. The studies are broad and focused, demonstrating a large number of viewpoints, methodologies and orientations and the material spans a wide range of subject areas, including biography, vocal music, instrumental music and performance. Written by leading researchers from Europe and North America, these previously published articles and book chapters are representative of both the most frequently discussed and debated issues in Mozart studies and the challenging, exciting nature of Mozart scholarship in general. The volume is essential reading for researchers, students and scholars of Mozart's music.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Mozart & His Family written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: