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Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood (Hardcover)
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Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood (Hardcover)
Series: New Material Histories of Music
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The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's precocity is so familiar as
to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart
the Wunderkind is often seen as belonging to a category of
childhood all by himself. But treating the young composer as an
anomaly risks minimizing his impact. In this book, Adeline Mueller
examines how Mozart shaped the social and cultural reevaluation of
childhood during the Austrian Enlightenment. Whether in a juvenile
sonata printed with his age on the title page, a concerto for a
father and daughter, a lullaby, a musical dice game, or a mass for
the consecration of an orphanage church, Mozart's music and persona
transformed attitudes toward children's agency, intellectual
capacity, relationships with family and friends, political and
economic value, work, school, and leisure time. Thousands of
children across the Habsburg Monarchy were affected by the Salzburg
prodigy and the idea he embodied: that childhood itself could be
packaged, consumed, deployed, "performed"-in short,
mediated-through music. This book builds upon a new understanding
of the history of childhood as dynamic and reciprocal, rather than
a mere projection or fantasy-as something mediated not just through
texts, images, and objects but also through actions. Drawing on a
range of evidence, from children's periodicals to Habsburg court
edicts and spurious Mozart prints, Mueller shows that while we need
the history of childhood to help us understand Mozart, we also need
Mozart to help us understand the history of childhood.
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