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THE LIFE OF MOZART

... THE LIFE OF MOZART.* WE should not be surprised if the French Life of Mozart written by M. Victor Wilder, the well-known litterateur, and published a few weeks ago, were found to be upon the whole the most satisfactory biographical record of the great ...

MOZART'S LETTERS

... sensitive, but poor Mozart ? The public to which they all now appeal may be capricious, and often misled by pretenders. But what are its faults in comparison with the vices of the old system of aristocratic patronage 2 The thought of Mozart silently eating ...

THE LIFE OF MOZART

... life of Mozart was called for because Mozart's life and works are so little known and appreciated, can scarcely be accepted. The life of Mozart has been more fully and more frequently told than that of any other great musician; and every one who takes ...

THE LIFE OF MOZART

... composer displayed his love of music. Concerning Mozart's childhood there is no more reliable document than a letter which the court trumpeter, Job. Andr. Schachtner, wrote soon after Mozart's death to Marianne Mozart. Schachtner died in 1795, after having filled ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2876 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MOZART'S AUTOGRAPHS

... the piano. Of Mozart's twenty masses (including the Requiem), ten are in Berlin. The collection is also rich in original scores bf Mozart's quartets for four-stringed instruments. Among the symphonies there are two of the grandest Mozart wrote-that in ...

MOZART IN MUNICH.—II

... general size of the theatres in Mozart's own day, for which his operas were written ; but as the number and quality of the instruments used here for those operas are pre- cisely limited to the known composition of Mozart's orchestra, and as the orchestra ...

THE MUNICH MOZART FESTIVAL

... THE MUNICH MOZART FESTIVAL ZAUBERFLOTE.' [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MUNICH, August 24. At last I have seen this long-anticipated and carefully-prepared version of Mozart's IZauberflote, which is the very centre, and trium-h of the Mozart Festival ...

THE MOZART MUNICH FESTIVAL

... THE MOZART MU1;IGCH FESTIVAL. A SUMMARY. [IROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] COLOGNE, September 14. A LONG farewell has been bidden to Munich: the Mozart festival, so far as one complete hearing of it goes, is over; a few days have now passed since those f ...

THE MUNICH MOZART FESTIVAL

... sort of Greek chorus to Mozart's music. It explained and illuminated the moods of the great music- dramatist. You felt from beginning to end- It was just such an ideal, just the inner vision of such a picture, which fired Mozart to the composi- tion of ...

THE MUNICH MOZART FESTIVAL

... even fbr Mozart; one (in Grove's Musical Dictioqary, if I recollect aright) explains the supposed shortcomings by a supposed inference that Mozart was tired when he wrote. Another imagines that the reason is to found in the fact that Mozart's head was ...

THE MUNICH MOZART FESTIVAL

... which 'certainly belong to this music of Mozart, though it is not everybody who is capable either of perceiving or of expressing them- Indeed, this determination to lay bare the most minute dramatic: secrets of Mozart's. work seemns to be the hinge upon which ...

MOZART AND THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC

... ventured to give for their annual dramatic performance, under the conductorship of Professor Stanford, an interpretation of Mozarts 4i Don Giovanni in English. We wish to be scrupulously fair in the matted, and propose therefore to separate as entirely ...