In this title, renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last and great decade of Mozart's operas. Mozart specialists will recognize some of Heartz's best-known essays here; but six pieces are new for the collection, and oth[...]
This second volume of the trilogy that began with the author's "Haydan, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740-1780", takes a musical tour of Naples, Venice, Dresden, Berlin, Stuttgart, Mannheim and Paris. The text discusses how the galant style held sway in Europe for much of the 18th century. Compo[...]