The Operas of Mozart (Audiobook) | Date: 11 April 2011, 16:33
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By December 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had written the defining compositions in every available musical genre of his time: symphony, chamber music, masses, and—above all—opera.
Opera was the prestige genre of the time, and Mozart loved it dearly and counted on it heavily for personal, professional, artistic, and financial reasons. Just the thought of opera, as Mozart wrote, made him "beside myself at once."
The world of the operatic stage spoke deeply to his primal instinct for play, his taste for fantasy, and his restless creative imagination.
Mozart's operas vie with each other to be considered among the greatest achievements of human artistic striving: Idomeneo, The Abduction from the Harem, The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute.
On September 30, 1791, the last of his masterpieces, The Magic Flute, had premiered in Vienna. Ten weeks later, on December 5, 1791, at the age of 35—when most of us are still hoping for one great accomplishment in our lives—Mozart was dead.
[b]What Did Mozart Do? And How Did He Do It?[/b]
In this course with Professor Robert Greenberg, we are summoned to understand more fully the height of Mozart's operatic achievement by analyzing two masterpieces closely. The course also invites us to fathom the enigma of Mozart's meteoric genius by studying his career and development.
Professor Greenberg is not an idolator—he reminds us that Mozart was a man, a human, working to make a name and a living. Professor Greenberg shows that Mozart was an "irreverent revolutionary" who did not worship the past. Accordingly, says Professor Greenberg, "This course is somewhat different from what you might expect. It brings Mozart's art refreshingly down to earth. It does not trivialize opera, nor does it put it on a pedestal."
The structure of the course is somewhat unusual. The 24 lectures are in three parts of eight lectures each. The first and third parts concentrate your attention on two works of surpassing beauty and accomplishment, Cosi fan tutte and The Magic Flute.
The middle eight lectures of the course study Mozart's early life and development from the first opera he wrote (when he was 11 years old) to Don Giovanni, completed when he was 31.
[hide=Course Lecture Titles][list][*]1. 1789
[*]2. Cosi fan tutte, Part One
[*]3. Cosi fan tutte, Part Two
[*]4. Cosi fan tutte, Part Three
[*]5. Cosi fan tutte, Part Four
[*]6. Cosi fan tutte, Part Five
[*]7. Cosi fan tutte, Part Six
[*]8. Cosi fan tutte, Part Seven
[*]9. The First Works
[*]10. The Italian Apprenticeship
[*]11. The Professional, Part One
[*]12. The Professional, Part Two
[*]13. Vienna and Abduction
[*]14. Salieri, Da Ponte and The Marriage of Figaro
[*]15. Don Giovanni, Part One
[*]16. Don Giovanni, Part Two
[*]17. Mozart, Masonry and The Magic Flute
[*]18. The Magic Flute, Part Two
[*]19. The Magic Flute, Part Three
[*]20. The Magic Flute, Part Four
[*]21. The Magic Flute, Part Five
[*]22. The Magic Flute, Part Six
[*]23. The Magic Flute, Part Seven
[*]24. The Magic Flute, Part Eight
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