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Mozart and the Enlightenment - Truth, Virtue, and Beauty in Mozart's Operas (Paperback) Loot Price: R890
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Mozart and the Enlightenment - Truth, Virtue, and Beauty in Mozart's Operas (Paperback): Nicholas Till

Mozart and the Enlightenment - Truth, Virtue, and Beauty in Mozart's Operas (Paperback)

Nicholas Till

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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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Imprint: W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 1995
First published: February 1996
Authors: Nicholas Till
Dimensions: 239 x 157 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31395-6
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
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LSN: 0-393-31395-6
Barcode: 9780393313956

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