... for how civilization itself (whatever that may mean) got started, and the ideologically tainted social contract litany is of no help in that respect either. Roy Wagner doi 10.1215/0961754X-7899659 Mitchell Cohen, The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (Princeton, NJ: Princeton...

...William Weber Hermann Abert, W. A. Mozart , trans. Stewart Spencer, ed. Cliff Eisen (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 1515 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II, What’s Wrong...

...Philip Gossett David J. Levin, Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 272 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama...

...Roger Moseley This article details the motives, processes, and historical context behind an improvised performance of a commedia dell'arte -style pantomime originally devised by Mozart and his friends during the Viennese Carnival season of 1783. The performers' efforts to reconstruct and interpret...

...Robert Levin Comparison of surviving texts of eighteenth-century composers, Bach and Mozart in particular, show that considerable latitude was granted to performers for extempore embellishment and cadenzas, not only in arias and concertos but in solo works as well. Amateurs required prepared...

... when classical repertories were becoming established. A kind of professional collegiality developed during this period on concert programs among pieces of diverse age and taste, reaching far beyond the iconic composers (now seen by most of us to have been Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann...

... expectation or intent. original ofhis reading literal a ofperformers, freedom salutary about the tions play a is piano Mozart literally to text play it improperly. Given Mozart’s assump to that us instructs who Levin, from Robert fluency of significance the welearn...

... to The Wood Nymphs (1838) Mozart, “Al desio di chi t’adora” from Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (1789 substitute aria) Ferdinand David (1810–73), Violin Concerto, played by composer Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864), Cavatina...

... as succinctly as possible, even if this procedure leads ulti- mately to a recasting of the whole exercise. How the recasting is done and how it leads to “new musical styles” can be clearly seen in the “Attwood volume” (the last of the Barenreiter Mozart edition). Thomas Attwood...

... interesting and compelling work on transfor- University Press, 2000), 7. See also the series of studies mative stagings has been by David J. Levin. See his Unset- about important divas of the nineteenth century (includ- tling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky ing Erminia Frezzolini...

... The , in Mozart and Salieri and Mozart philosophical wonder philosophical into wonder transformed is how...

... is of no help in that respect either. Roy Wagner doi 10.1215/0961754X-7899659 Mitchell Cohen, The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), 477 pp. How should the history of political thought be written? The traditional answer to this question...

..., consult the comprehensive German-language biography, published in biography,in published German-language comprehensive the consult the pastduring half century. The English speakers among them are now able to Listeners deeply engrossed in the music of Mozart have been especially numerous (New...

..., consult the comprehensive German-language biography, published in biography,in published German-language comprehensive the consult the pastduring half century. The English speakers among them are now able to Listeners deeply engrossed in the music of Mozart have been especially numerous (New...

..., consult the comprehensive German-language biography, published in biography,in published German-language comprehensive the consult the pastduring half century. The English speakers among them are now able to Listeners deeply engrossed in the music of Mozart have been especially numerous (New...

..., consult the comprehensive German-language biography, published in biography,in published German-language comprehensive the consult the pastduring half century. The English speakers among them are now able to Listeners deeply engrossed in the music of Mozart have been especially numerous (New...

..., consult the comprehensive German-language biography, published in biography,in published German-language comprehensive the consult the pastduring half century. The English speakers among them are now able to Listeners deeply engrossed in the music of Mozart have been especially numerous (New...

..., consult the comprehensive German-language biography, published in biography,in published German-language comprehensive the consult the pastduring half century. The English speakers among them are now able to Listeners deeply engrossed in the music of Mozart have been especially numerous (New...

..., consult the comprehensive German-language biography, published in biography,in published German-language comprehensive the consult the pastduring half century. The English speakers among them are now able to Listeners deeply engrossed in the music of Mozart have been especially numerous (New...

..., consult the comprehensive German-language biography, published in biography,in published German-language comprehensive the consult the pastduring half century. The English speakers among them are now able to Listeners deeply engrossed in the music of Mozart have been especially numerous (New...