2006, ISBN: 0393061124

[EAN: 9780393061123], Neubuch, [PU: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York & London], MUSIC: CLASSICAL: MOZART: SADIE, STANLEY: THE EARLY YEARS, 1756-1781: 16 PP. OF CHOICE B-W ILLUSTRATIO… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780393061123], Neubuch, [PU: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York & London], MUSIC: CLASSICAL: MOZART: SADIE, STANLEY: THE EARLY YEARS, 1756-1781: 16 PP. OF CHOICE B-W ILLUSTRATIONS, Jacket, EXTRAORDINARY: COMPREHENSIVE: FASCINATING: PERCEPTIVE: ERUDITE: LUCID: INVALUABLE: . & . MARVELOUSLY ENTERTAINING !!! A SUPERB copy of this SPLENDID book, a Great Music Historian's Last & Lasting Labor of Love: NEW Stated First Edition (Orig. 2006) First Printing, AS-NEW unclipped handsomely-designed mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners featuring a medallion portrait of young Mozart on the front panel & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ library-durable crimson-plum fabric wrapping spine & extending fully 2.46" onto front & back panels ELEGANTLY covered in wheat-tan laid paper w/ titles beautifully gilt stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & crimson-black-checked cloth banding at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE pale-ocher card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior presenting text w/ exceptional ELEGANCE & CLARITY on SUPERB unblemished silk-finish archival paper * 6.36" x 9.50" x 1.76", 1.11 kg, xxvi+644 (670) pp. * CONTENTS: Foreword (xiii), Preface (xix), Notes (549), Bibliography (589), Classified Index of Mozart's Works (603), Index of Mozart's Works by Kochel No. (613), General Index (623) * 16 pp. of choice illustrations * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this EXTRAORDINARY book, renowned music historian & PREEMINENT Mozart specialist Stanley Sadie offers the first COMPREHENSIVE examination in more than seventy years of Mozart's formative years & early work, taking his readers on a FASCINATING journey from Mozart's earliest days as a musical prodigy through his years of endless travel displaying his talents & finally to his escape from Salzburg, the provincial town of his youth. Our understanding of Mozart's life & music has broadened immensely in recent years. Much new material has come to light, including discoveries of musical sources & fresh ways of interpreting known ones. Studies in the chronology of Mozart's works, his compositional process, his relationship to the world around him, these & many other areas have yielded new thinking that has challenged or overturned the inherited wisdom. In "Mozart: The Early Years" Stanley Sadie discusses all aspects of the composer's life & music, relating them to the social, economic, cultural, & musical environments in which he worked. Drawing substantially on family correspondence, Sadie illuminates Mozart's world & his relationships w/ employers, colleagues, & family. Individual works are discussed in sequence & related to the events of the composer's life. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "The last work of one of the greatest Mozart scholars of the 20th century, written in Stanley Sadie's typical style, a mixture of precise detail & affection for his subject. All Mozart lovers will be grateful to have this erudite & entertaining book." -Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor / "Stanley Sadie's final gift to the music world is this lucid account of Mozart's childhood & early maturity. Beautifully written & replete w/ the latest biographical information, this book provides insights into individual compositions & an invaluable perspective on Mozart's compositional approaches & aspirations. New acolytes &experienced Mozarteans will find much to admire & savor." -Robert Levin, pianist & musicologist / "Stanley Sadie is especially perceptive in his thumbnail descriptions of Mozart's works. He always seems to find just the right way to illuminate the speciaL quality of a movement or passage in just a few words, instantly comprehensible." -Emanuel Ax, pianist * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: STANLEY SADIE (1930-2005) was former music critic for The Times of London & editor of The Musical Times, whose crowning achievement lay in bring out the monumental "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians". Over the course of a prodigiously productive lifetime, he published thirty books. He died in 2005 just after completing this masterpiece, his envoi, " Mozart: The Early Years, 1756-1781"., Books<

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[EAN: 9780393061123], Neubuch, [PU: Norton], CLASSICAL MUSIC AUSTRIAN COMPOSERS BIOGRAPHY MOZART, Jacket, xxv, 644pp, illustrations, music examples. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage will be requ… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780393061123], Neubuch, [PU: Norton], CLASSICAL MUSIC AUSTRIAN COMPOSERS BIOGRAPHY MOZART, Jacket, xxv, 644pp, illustrations, music examples. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. Drawing on a mass of source material, including the autograph manuscripts and family letters, Sadie traces the composer's life from his birth in Salzburg to the opening of Idomeneo in Munich in 1781, and he discusses every musical work in terms both of biographical context and of the music itself., Books<