Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune
Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune "I now stand at the gateway to my fortune," Mozart wrote in a letter of 1790. His extraordinary subsequent output, beginning with the three final great symphonies…
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Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune
"I now stand at the gateway to my fortune," Mozart wrote in a letter of 1790. His extraordinary subsequent output, beginning with the three final great symphonies from the summer of 1788, invites a reassessment of this entire period of his life. He had entered into the service of Emperor Joseph II of Austria two years earlier as Imperial-Royal Chamber Composer--a salaried appointment with a distinguished title and few obligations.
The author discusses the major biographical and musical implications of the royal appointment and explores Mozart's "imperial style" on the basis of his major compositions--keyboard, chamber, orchestral, operatic, and sacred--and focuses on the large, unfamiliar works he left incomplete. Readers will gain a new appreciation and understanding of the composer's works from that time without the usual emphasis on his imminent death. This new perspective points to
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