This website is devoted to Mozart, the man and his music, as seen from many aspects. The subject matter reflects the multifaceted nature of our interest in Mozart, with questions of Mozart biography and reception being particularly prominent. Taken altogether, these articles and studies reflect a diverse and variegated preoccupation with the Mozart phenomenon. If there is a unifying thread running through them, it is probably this: a desire to substitute analysis for story-telling, an intent to replace fable with fact, and an insistence on expanding the context within which Mozart and his legacy to the world are viewed. Comments and questions are welcome and can be addressed to b2c@aproposmozart.com.
In Memoriam
In tribute to the memory of three of this generation’s finest Mozart scholars:
Alan Tyson (1926-2000)
Stanley Sadie (1929-2005)
Peter Branscombe (1929-2008)
NEW ON APROPOS MOZART: AN EXTRACT FROM DEREK BEALES´ BIOGRAPHY OF |
-- You can click on the titles below to go directly to the papers.
Günther G. Bauer
“Mozart’s High Costs for Light and Heat, 1781 – 1791”
Derek Beales
Book extract: "Music and drama, with special reference to Mozart"
Mark Berry
“Power and Patronage in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte”
Peter Branscombe
“Die Zauberflöte: The intellectual background: Freemasonry, and The writing of the opera”
“The Land of the Piano: Music, Theatre and Performance in Vienna around 1800”
"`Cosi fan tutte´- An Introduction"
Gunthard Born
“Rhetoric in the Music of Mozart”
“Mozart’s Musical Language: Key to his Life and Work” -- a BCC introduction to the book
Volkmar Braunbehrens
“Mozart in Orchestra Concerts of the 19th Century”
“The Mozart-Salieri Connection”
“Mozart in Vienna: The Myth of ‘The best place in the world’” (Festrede 1991)
“Mozart – The conservative Revolutionary” (Festrede 2006)
“Fatherly Friend, ‘most obedient Son’: Leopold and Wolfgang A. Mozart”
“Mozart in Vienna – The New (2005) Preface”
“’Hier ist doch gewis das Clavierland!’ – Mozart in Vienna“
Walther Brauneis
“Franz Xaver Niemetschek: Is his Association with Mozart only Legend?”
Bruce Cooper Clarke
Essay review: “Mozart as seen in contemporary German-language biography”
Book Review: “Historicizing the Mozart Myth: Volkmar Braunbehrens’s Mozart in Wien”
Essay: “George Bernard Shaw: Mozart and his Musical Self-Respect”
Study: “Albert von Mölk: Mozart Myth-Maker? Study of an 18th century Correspondence“
Article: “Requiem’s Inception: Footnote to a Footnote”
Essay: “The Mozart Paradox: Meditation on a Theme”
Series: “The Prince Lichnowsky Newsletters”
The Prince Lichnowsky Newsletter No.1
The Prince Lichnowsky Newsletter No.2
The Prince Lichnowsky Newsletter Nos.3 & 4
The Prince Lichnowsky Newsletter No.5
The Prince Lichnowsky Newsletter No.6
E. R. Ecurb
R.I.P.: A little Night-Musick for a Dear Friend
Cliff Eisen
”Ein neu entdecktes Mozart-Porträt?”
“Mozart in Italy and the Enigma of a Collection: Newly-Discovered Portraits and Artifacts”
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
"Excerpts from an interview relating to Mozart, the man and his music"
"We must listen, listen, listen (Festrede 2006)
Katalin Komlós
Ulrich Konrad
“How Mozart went about composing: a new view”
“A Secret without a Solution: The Wonder that is Wolfgang Amadé Mozart” (Festrede 2006)
“A Rediscovered Autograph of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: The “Nantes Sketch”
Konrad Küster
“Mozart: A Musical Biography” -- a BCC introduction to the book
“Twice Three is Five, and Other Experiments: Piano Quartets and String Quintets, 1785-1787”
Dorothea Link
“Mozart’s appointment to the Viennese court”
Birgit Lodes
“Reflections on Beethoven and Mozart”
Dr. Anton Neumayr
“Mozart’s final illness and death”: excerpts from the book, “Music & Medicine"
John A. Rice
“Mozart’s Operas: Function, Genres, Archetypes”
Stanley Sadie
Wolf-Dieter Seiffert
George Bernard Shaw
“The Mozart Centenary, 1891: Articles from 9 and 12 December 1891”
William Stafford
“All about Eve: Mozart and Women”
Michael Stürmer
“Mozart and the Pursuit of Happiness”
Alan Tyson
“Mozart’s Thematic Catalogue – Description of the Manuscript”
Roye E. Wates
“Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, K.427/417a (unfinished)”
Renate Welsh
“Constanze Mozart: A woman of no importance” -- a BCC introduction to the book.
Neal Zaslaw
“Audiences for Mozart’s symphonies during his lifetime”
"One More Time: Mozart and his Cadenzas"
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