Life of Mozart: Volume 3

The 1882 three-volume English translation of the 1867 second edition of a landmark biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91).

Otto Jahn (Author), Pauline D. Townsend (Translated by), George Grove (Preface by)

9781108064842, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 September 2013

462 pages, 5 b/w illus.
21.1 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.58 kg

In terms of musical composition, all but the first five of his thirty-five years were astoundingly productive for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91). A stream of glorious symphonies, piano concertos, chamber music, operas and the sublime but unfinished Requiem poured from his pen. German philologist and archaeologist Otto Jahn (1813–69) was inspired to write a scholarly biography of Mozart following a conversation at Mendelssohn's funeral in 1847. He immersed himself in intensive research on the composer and his music, publishing the first edition of this landmark work in four volumes between 1856 and 1859. A second edition followed in 1867, incorporating new material and making use of Köchel's 1862 catalogue of Mozart's works. It is from this edition that Pauline D. Townsend made her three-volume English translation, first published in 1882. Volume 3 discusses the Mozart–Da Ponte operas and the Requiem, and also includes a list of his works.

34. Mozart's instrumental music
35. Mozart as an opera composer
36. Le nozze di Figaro
37. Mozart in Prague
38. Don Giovanni
39. Official and occasional works
40. A professional tour
41. Così fan tutte
42. Labour and poverty
43. Die Zauberflöte
44. Illness and death
45. The Requiem
46. At the grave
Appendices 1-4
Index
Fac-similes.

Subject Areas: Baroque music [c 1600 to c 1750 AVGC3]