Great Masters: Mozart - His Life and Music (Audiobook) | Date: 12 April 2011, 14:03
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He composed his first symphony at the age of 8. His middle name means "loved of God." And Austrian Emperor Joseph II accused his music of having "too many notes."
This course is a biographical and musical study of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), who composed more than 600 works of beauty and brilliance in just over 20 years.
According to Professor Robert Greenberg, Mozart's music combined the pure lyricism of song with dramatic timing, depth of expression, and technical mastery of the complexities of phrase structure and harmony that allowed him to create a body of work unique in the repertoire.
[b]Will the Real Wolfgang Please Stand Up?[/b]
And his personal life has generated nearly as much interest as his music. Who was Mozart? Was he the fair-haired boy-divinity of 19th-century Romanticism? Was he indeed the horse-laughing lout of recent theater and cinema? Was he borderline autistic or musical freak?
Was he an artistic traditionalist working happily within Haydn-defined Classicism? A social and musical rebel at war with a patronage system?
What did his contemporaries think of his music? Why was he so passionate about writing operas? How did he view his audience, his patrons, and his fellow composers? Does any of his music reflect his own moods or states of mind?
Who and what were the crucial influences in his life and his art? And how did he die?
[b]You learn about Mozart's:[/b]
[list][*]Journey from youthful prodigy to posthumous deification
[*]Difficult relationship with his father
[*]Tours to London and Paris
[*]Struggles for a successful career
[*]Marriage to Constanze Weber
[*]Triumphs and disappointments in Vienna
[*]Relationships with Haydn, Emperor Joseph II, and librettist Lorenzo da Ponte.
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"Much of today's Mozart scholarship is about debunking myths," says Professor Greenberg. "One of the reasons for the Mozart mythology is the fact that few responsible accounts of Mozart's life and personality were written during his lifetime. Much was written years after his death.
"Mozart's extraordinary, prodigious talent also fueled the notion that he was some kind of freak. At the heart of the Mozart mythology is the otherworldliness of his music. His middle name, Amadeus, 'loved of God,' also helped to imbue him with a God-like image.
"The goal of these lectures is to show Mozart to be a person: a talented, hard-working, ambitious man who had friends and enemies and whose music was subject to criticism in his own day."
Mozart wrote more than 600 compositions, whose standard numbering comes from the catalogue listing first published in 1862 by Ludwig von Kochel.
[b]Works you'll hear in the lectures are excerpted from:[/b]
[list][*]Eine kleine Nachtmusick, K. 525 (1787)
[*]Don Giovanni, K. 527 (1787)
[*]Piano Concerto no. 21 in C Major, K. 467 (1785)
[*]String Quartet in C, K. 465 (Dissonant ) (1785)
[*]The Magic Flute, K. 620 (1791)
[*]Serenade in D Major, K. 320 (Posthorn) (1779)
[*]Cosi fan tutte, K. 588 (1789)
[*]Flute Concerto in D, K. 314/320d (1777)
[*]Piano Concerto no. 18 in B-flat, K. 456 (1785)
[*]Ein Musikalischer Spass, K. 522 (1787)
[*]Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra, K. 364/320d (1779)
[*]The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 (1786)
[*]String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 (1787)
[*]Symphony no. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 (1788)
[*]Symphony no. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543 (1788)
[*]Symphony no. 41 in C Major, K. 551 (Jupiter ) (1788)
[*]Requiem Mass, K. 626 (1791)
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[hide=Course Lecture Titles]
[list][*]1. Introduction
[*]2. Leopold and the Grand Tour
[*]3. Mozart the Composer—The Early Music
[*]4. Paris
[*]5. The Flight from Salzburg and Arrival in Vienna
[*]6. Life in Vienna
[*]7. Operas in Vienna
[*]8. The Last Years
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