Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune

Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791

Christoph Wolff (Harvard University)

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Norton
01 June 2012

Music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

""I now stand at the gateway to my fortune,"" Mozart wrote in a letter of 1790. 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. 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. Readers will gain a new appreciation and understanding of the composer's works from that time without the usual emphasis on his imminent death. 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. This new perspective points to an energetic, fresh beginning for the composer and a promising creative and financial future.

By: Christoph Wolff (Harvard University)
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 409g
ISBN: 9780393050707
ISBN 10: 039305070X
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 June 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christoph Wolff, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the Adams University Professor at Harvard University and one of the world's foremost experts on Bach and Mozart. Also available: The New Bach Reader (ISBN 978 0 393 31956 9).

Reviews for Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791

A wonderful merging of research findings and practical guidance. --Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine