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Mozart and Other Essays on Courtly Art (Hardcover)
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Mozart and Other Essays on Courtly Art (Hardcover)
Series: Collected Works of Norbert Elias, v. 12
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Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a
court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more than a domestic
servant. Unlike his father, however, his personal makeup was
already that of the freelance artist who sought to follow the flow
of his own artistic conscience and imagination rather than the
courtly conventions and standards of the day. In "Mozart: the
Sociology of a Genius", Elias paints a portrait of this
extraordinarily gifted artist born into a society that did not yet
possess either the concept of 'genius' or (at least in music) that
of freelance artist. The apparent contradictions of his character -
the refined elegance of his compositions and the coarseness of his
lavatorial humour - reflect his uncomfortable and eventually tragic
straddling of two social worlds. The volume also includes two major
essays on cognate topics, previously unpublished in English: on the
courtly painter Watteau's "Embarkation for Cythera", and on 'The
fate of German Baroque poetry: between the traditions of court and
middle class'.
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