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Mozart's Ghosts : Haunting the Halls of Musical Culture
ISBN: 9780195389173 | 0195389174
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/1/2013
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Mozart's Ghoststraces the many lives of this great composer that emerged following his early death in 1791. Crossing national boundaries and traversing two hundred years-worth of interpretation and reception, author Mark Everist investigates how Mozart's past status can be understood as part of today's veneration. Everist forges new paths to reach the composer, examining a number of ways in which Western culture has absorbed the idea of Mozart, how various cultural agents have appropriated, deployed, and exploited Mozart toward both authoritari... MORE
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| List of Music Examples | |
| List of Tables | |
| List of Figures | |
| Introduction | |
| Phantoms of the Opera | |
| Phantoms of the Opera | |
| Mozart and L'impresario | |
| The Commendatore and the Clavier | |
| Holy Spirits | |
| "Mozart's" "Twelfth Mass"; Case Closed? | ... MORE|
| Enshrining Mozart: Don Giovanni and the Viardot Circle | |
| Specters at the Feast | |
| Mozart in Two Worlds: the Writings on Music of Blaze de Bury | |
| Speaking with the Supernatural: E.T.A. Hoffmann, George Bernard Shaw and Die Oper aller Opern | |
| The Specter at the Feast: Elvira Madigan and its Legacy | |
| Conclusion: The Mozart Effect | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Mark Everist is a muscologist whose field of study includes the music of Western Europe, 1150-1350, music in France between the Restoration and Commune, Music and Cultural Transfer, and Mozart reception. He is Professor of Music and Associate Dean at the University of Southampton and President of the Royal Musical Association.
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