Mozart’s Rascal
Roger Parker, 23 May 1991
Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791
by Volkmar Braunbehrens.
Deutsch, 481 pp., £17.95, June 1990,9780233985596 Show More
by Volkmar Braunbehrens.
Deutsch, 481 pp., £17.95, June 1990,
The Mozart Compendium
edited by H.C. Robbins Landon.
Thames and Hudson, 452 pp., £24.95, September 1990,0 500 01481 7 Show More
edited by H.C. Robbins Landon.
Thames and Hudson, 452 pp., £24.95, September 1990,
Mozart and Vienna
by H.C. Robbins Landon.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £16.95, February 1991,0 500 01506 6 Show More
by H.C. Robbins Landon.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £16.95, February 1991,
Mozart’s Thematic Catalogue: A Facsimile
introduced and transcribed by Albi Rosenthal and Alan Tyson.
British Library, 57 pp., £25, November 1990,0 7123 0202 6 Show More
introduced and transcribed by Albi Rosenthal and Alan Tyson.
British Library, 57 pp., £25, November 1990,
The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
edited by Neal Zaslaw and William Cowdery.
Norton, 351 pp., £19.95, April 1991,0 393 02886 0 Show More
edited by Neal Zaslaw and William Cowdery.
Norton, 351 pp., £19.95, April 1991,
“... Scholarly biographies of composers, once a sure way forward in terms of professional advancement, often the culmination of a distinguished career, are now unfashionable in the academy. For musicologists, virtually all of whom are still preoccupied with formalistic concerns, the genre is redolent of earlier, less severe periods: of fat, comfortable books in which the documents of a musician’s life would be lovingly assembled, often with the stated purpose of bringing us closer to ‘the music’, but rarely offering concrete ways in which such a conjunction might be attempted ... ”
