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Mozart

portrait of a genius

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An edition of Mozart (1991)

Mozart

portrait of a genius

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"Mozart is a brilliant study of the great composer's life and creative genius, written by one of the most important social thinkers of our time. In this haunting portrait, Elias examines the paradoxes of Mozart's short existence - his creativity and social marginality, his musical sophistication and personal crudeness, his breathtaking accomplishments and psychological despair.".

"Using psychoanalytic insights, Elias examines Leopold Mozart's carefully honed ambitions for his son and protege. From the age of six Mozart traveled with his father, performing in the major courts throughout Europe, as the elder Mozart worked on his son "like a sculptor on his sculpture." This deep bond between father and son, which shackled as well as nurtured, provides the lietmotif of Mozart's early genius and the basis of his complicated psyche.".

"As Elias shows, Mozart chafed at the constraints of Viennese courtly culture. Growing up in a society which viewed musicians as manual laborers producing entertainment for the court, Mozart fought for an independent livelihood. But it was not until the next generation - that of Beethoven - that the necessary conditions were created for such an existence.

Vienna's aristocracy ultimately turned its back on the composer who, with mounting debts, no work and no prospect of fulfilling his innermost desires, died feeling that his life had become empty of meaning." "Elias intriguingly ponders the notion of genius, seen as a complex marriage of fantasy, inspiration, and convention. Mozart was able to fuse brilliant musical innovation to an accessible artistic canon, producing wholly original, yet understandable creations.".

"In exploring the tension between personal creativity and the tastes of an era, Mozart is a book of startling insight and discovery."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
152

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Cover of: Mozart
Mozart
September 17, 1994, Polity Press
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Mozart
Mozart: portrait of a genius
1993, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: Mozart
Mozart: Portrait of a Genius
October 1, 1993, University of California Press
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Mozart
Mozart: Zur Soziologie eines Genies (Bibliothek Suhrkamp)
1991, Suhrkamp
Turtleback in German - 1. Aufl edition
Cover of: Mozart
Mozart: zur Soziologie eines Genies
1991, Suhrkamp
in German - 1. Aufl.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 1991.

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Berkeley

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
780/.92
Library of Congress
ML410.M9 E4313 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
152 p. ;
Number of pages
152

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1438260M
ISBN 10
0520084756
LCCN
93060280
OCLC/WorldCat
28593600
Library Thing
443715
Goodreads
1099398

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