This major work places Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. Even as he delves into philosophic and aesthetic questions, Robert Gutman keeps in sight, clearly and firmly, the composer and his works. He discusses the major genres in which Mozart worked-chamber music; liturgical, theater, and keyboard compositions; concerto; symphony; opera; and oratorio. All of these riches unfold within the framework of the composer's brief but remarkable ...
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This major work places Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. Even as he delves into philosophic and aesthetic questions, Robert Gutman keeps in sight, clearly and firmly, the composer and his works. He discusses the major genres in which Mozart worked-chamber music; liturgical, theater, and keyboard compositions; concerto; symphony; opera; and oratorio. All of these riches unfold within the framework of the composer's brief but remarkable life. With Gutman's informed and sensitive handling, Mozart emerges in a light more luminous than in previous renderings. The composer was an affectionate and generous man to family and friends, self-deprecating, witty, winsome, but also an austere moralist, incisive and purposeful. Mozart is both an extraordinary portrait of a man in his time and a brilliant distillation of musical thought.
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This author, seemingly, is trying to display his "elevated" intellect using inappropriately complex diction and vocabulary rather than convey knowledge upon the reader through COMMUNICATION. An enduring proportion of the text discusses the complex political climate and structure of 18th century Europe. Not bad in and of itself, but maps and a charts would have been beneficial to organize the data and display the lineage of all the players.
His ponderous descriptions of Mozart's music are that of a faux music critic: boring, ineffectual, and pedantic.
There is a lot of information and it is perhaps my desire to learn that holds my interest. But, I look forward to reading another biography on Mozart that is more concerned with illuminating the life of composer and his works than with displaying a self-glorifying, faux-intellectual, faux-aristocratic, and condescending air.