Mozart's ghosts : haunting the halls of musical culture

Mozart's ghosts : haunting the halls of musical culture / Mark Everist.

In 'Mozart's Ghosts', author Mark Everist investigates how the composer's past status can be understood as part of today's veneration. Everist forges new paths to reach the composer examining a number of ways in which Western culture has absorbed the idea of Mozart, how vari...

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Main Author: Everist, Mark (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, > 1756-1791 > Criticism and interpretation.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, > 1756-1791
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > Reference.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction.
  • Part I: Phantoms of the Opera. Phantoms of the Opera ; Mozart and L'impresario ; The Commendatore and the Clavier.
  • Part II: Holy Spirits. "; Case Closed? ; Enshrining Mozart: Don Giovanni and the Viardot Circle.
  • Part III: Specters at the Feast. Mozart in Two Worlds: the Writings on Music of Blaze de Bury ; Speaking with the Supernatural: E.T.A. Hoffmann, George Bernard Shaw and Die Oper aller Opern ; The Specter at the Feast: Elvira Madigan and its Legacy ; Conclusion: The Mozart Effect.

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