This major work, the result of years of careful study and analysis, places Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual, political and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. The result is a fresh interpretation of Mozart's genius, as Robert Gutman shows the great composer in a new light. With an informed and sensitive handling, Mozart emerges as an affectionate and generous man with family and friends, self-deprecating, witty, and winsome but also an austere moralist, incisive and ...
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This major work, the result of years of careful study and analysis, places Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual, political and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. The result is a fresh interpretation of Mozart's genius, as Robert Gutman shows the great composer in a new light. With an informed and sensitive handling, Mozart emerges as an affectionate and generous man with family and friends, self-deprecating, witty, and winsome but also an austere moralist, incisive and purposeful. The major genres in which Mozart worked-chamber music, liturgical, theater and keyboard compositions, concertos, operas, symphonies, and oratorios-are unfolded to reveal a man of luminous intellect. Mozart is an extraordinary portrait of a man and his times 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.
