Collections of Essays
1268.Wolfgang Amadè Mozart: Essays.Ed. Stanley Sadie. New York: Oxford U.P.,- xvii, 512p. ISBN 0-19-816443-2. ML410 .M95 W885.
Essays by various authors, including 15 about the operas: Tim Carter,
“Mozart, Da Ponte and the Ensemble: Methods in Progress?”; Jessica Waldoff
and James Webster, “Operatic Plotting in Le nozze di Figaro”; John Platoff,
“Catalogue Arias and the ‘Catalogue Aria’”; Bruce Alan Brown, “Beaumar-
chais, Paisiello and the Genesis of Così fan tutte”; Caryl Clark, “Recall and
Reflexivity in Così fan tutte”; Daniel Heartz, “When Mozart Revises: The
Case of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte”; Dorothea Link, “L’arbore di Diana: A
Model for Così fan tutte”; Christoph- Hellmut Mahling, “‘... New and Alto-
gether Special and Astonishingly Difficult’: Some Comments on Junia’s Aria in
Lucio Silla”; Federico Pirani, “Operatic Links between Rome and Vienna,
1776–1790”; Andrew Dell’Antonio, “‘Il compositore deluso’: The Fragments
of Lo sposo deluso”; Neal Zaslaw, “Waiting for Figaro”; Julian Rushton,
“‘.. .Hier wird es besser seyn—ein blosses Recitative zu machen.. .’: Obser-
vations on Recitative Organization in Idomeneo”; Marita P. McClymonds,
“The Great Quartet in Idomeneoand the Italian opera seria”; Konrad Küster,
“An Early Form in Mozart’s Late Style: The Overture to La clemenza di Tito”;
and Don Neville, “From Simplicity to Complexity in La clemenza di Tito.”
Footnoted, no bibliography, partly expansive index.
1269.The Mozart Compendium: A Guide to Mozart’s Life and Music.Ed. H. C.
Robbins Landon. New York: Schirmer, 1990. 452p. ISBN 0-02-871321-4.
ML410 .M95 M875.
Essays by 24 specialists cover a wide range of Mozart material: sources, col-
lected editions, musical life in cities (Salzburg and Vienna) and countries
(France, England, Netherlands, Germany, and Italy), and Mozart in literature
(Mörike, Bernard Shaw, Pushkin, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Kierkegaard). The vol-
ume is marred by a weak bibliography and very poor index (not expansive;
some 500 entries under “Vienna”).
Biographies
- Einstein, Alfred. Mozart: His Character, His Work. Trans. Arthur Mendel and
Nathan Broder. New York: Oxford U.P., 1945. 492p. ML410 .M9 E4.
A thoughtful examination of Mozart’s life, with general observations on the
music. Program notes on the operas, p.383–472. Worklist, name index. - Deutsch, Otto Erich. Mozart: A Documentary Biography, 1756–1791. Trans.
Eric Blom, Peter Branscombe, and Jeremy Noble. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford U.
Press, 1965. 680p. ISBN 0-8047-2333-0. ML410 .M95 D4782.
Originally Mozart: Dokumente seines Lebens(Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1961). The
principal biography, concentrating on the person, drawn from a wide range of
contemporary source materials. Worklist, bibliography, index. Addenda und
Corrigendaby Joseph Heinz Eibl was issued by the same publisher in 1978.
See next entry.
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