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1791: Mozart's Last Yearby H. C. Robbins LandonISBN 0500281076 (0-500-28107-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Amadeus: A Dramaby Peter ShafferISBN 0573611696 (0-573-61169-6)
Softcover, Samuel French
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Amadeus: A Playby Peter ShafferISBN 0233972722 (0-233-97272-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethovenby Charles RosenISBN 0393006530 (0-393-00653-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven'Book summary:The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven is a revised and enlarged version of Charles Rosen's landmark 1970 work on the compositions of the trio of musical geniuses who formed the Viennese Classical School and forever changed the face of music. Along with clarifications, expansions, and new insights into the composers and their music, the book has been enriched by the addition of a compact disc containing two of the Beethoven piano sonatas of which the author writes. Rosen's books are always shot through with musical examples, so you'll get a great deal more out of this one if you can read music. The Classical Style is a brilliant book, composed by a genuine artist, sometimes provocative, but never sloppy in its thinking. [via]
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Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. - The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: ISBN 0571049052 (0-571-04905-2)
Hardcover, Faber - The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: ISBN 0571049168 (0-571-04916-8)
Hardcover, Faber - The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: ISBN 067022510X (0-670-22510-X)
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The Classical Style:Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: Haydn, Mozart, Beethovenby Charles RosenISBN 0571091180 (0-571-09118-0)
Hardcover, Faber
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The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartby Neal Zaslaw, William CowderyISBN 0393028860 (0-393-02886-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Complete String Quartetsby Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN 0486223728 (0-486-22372-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Complete String Quintetsby Wolfgang A. MozartISBN 048623603X (0-486-23603-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Don Giovanniby Nicholas JohnISBN 0714538531 (0-7145-3853-1)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Giovanni'Book summary:[via]The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detailwith many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times. The complete libretto is included in both the original language and in a modern singing translationexcept where the opera was written in English. Each has a thematic guide to the most important musical themes in musical notation and each guide is lavishly illustrated. They also contain a bibliography and a discography which is updated at each reprint. The ENO guides are widely regarded as the best series of their kind and excellent value.More editions of Don Giovanni:
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Don Giovanniby W.A. MozartISBN 0486211347 (0-486-21134-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Giovanni'Book summary:[via]The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detailwith many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times. The complete libretto is included in both the original language and in a modern singing translationexcept where the opera was written in English. Each has a thematic guide to the most important musical themes in musical notation and each guide is lavishly illustrated. They also contain a bibliography and a discography which is updated at each reprint. The ENO guides are widely regarded as the best series of their kind and excellent value.More editions of Don Giovanni:
Don Giovanni: In Full Scoreby Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN 0486230260 (0-486-23026-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Don Giovanni: Opera Librettoby W. MozartISBN 0793526094 (0-7935-2609-4)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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La Revolution Francaiseby Claude Manceron, Anne ManceronISBN 2877420329 (2-87742-032-9)
Hardcover, Renaudot
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Later Symphoniesby W.A. MozartISBN 048623052X (0-486-23052-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Letters of Mozartby Hans Mersmann, M. M. BozmanISBN 0880290870 (0-88029-087-0)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
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Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartby Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN 0486228592 (0-486-22859-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'Book summary:Over 100 often hilarious, sometimes sad, but always articulate letters from one of the most charismatic composers in history. Candid self-portrait emerges revealing his witty observations of royalty and their patronage, music, his family, his debilitating and humiliating poverty. One facsimile.[via]More editions of Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Life of Mozartby Edward HolmesISBN 1596051477 (1-59605-147-7)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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The Life of Mozart: Including His Correspondenceby Edward HolmesISBN 0722254784 (0-7222-5478-4)
Hardcover, Best Books
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Magic Fluteby Anne Gatti, Peter Malone, Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN 0811810038 (0-8118-1003-8)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic Flute'Book summary:Mozart's last opera, the simultaneously comic and serious fairy tale The Magic Flute (Die Zauberfloete), is as problematic as anything in the medium. Some deplore it for its perceived sexism and racism; some deplore it for its arguably goofy plot. "Depending on your perspective," writes David Foil in his essay in this book, it "is either the silliest opera ever written or a work of profound insight that happens to be dressed in the trappings of a cartoon." That it is Mozart's sublime music that ennobles something meant to be merely a short-lived popular entertainment is not in question.
This volume, issued by Black Dog Opera Library, puts together Foil's essay, lots of pictures, a complete libretto (with running commentary) in English and German, and a classic recording on two compact discs in one comfortably priced hardcover package. It is a fine introduction to what remains a great opera, goofy plot or no. (And Bellini's plots aren't even goofier?) It is worth buying just for the now out-of-print EMI/Angel 1972 (remastered in 1987) recording, contained on two very long-playing CDs, found inside the front and back covers of the book. The dialogue portions work better in this version than in most recordings. Anneliese Rothenberger is an appealing Pamina, and Walter Berry is a delightful Papageno. Edda Moser nails the difficult music of the Queen of Night, while Kurt Moll is our day's definitive Sarastro. Wolfgang Sawallisch, brisk and never lugubrious, conducts his soloists and the Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra with total certainty. [via]
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The Magic Flute Unveiled: Esoteric Symbolism in Mozart's Masonic Opera An Interpretation of the Libretto and the Musicby Jacques ChailleyISBN 089281358X (0-89281-358-X)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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The Magic Flute, Masonic Opera: An Interpretation of the Libretto and the Musicby Jacques ChailleyISBN 0394434528 (0-394-43452-8)
Hardcover, A. A. Knopf
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Marriage of Figaro Le Nozze Di Figaroby Nicholas JohnISBN 0714537713 (0-7145-3771-3)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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The Marriage of Figaro: (Le Nozze Di Figaro) in Full Scoreby Wolfgang Amadeus MizartISBN 0486237516 (0-486-23751-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Marrying Mozartby Stephanie CowellISBN 014303457X (0-14-303457-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marrying Mozart'Book summary:Mannheim, 1777. The four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. Their father scrapes by as a music copyist; their mother keeps a book of prospective suitors hidden in the kitchen. The sisters struggle with these marriage prospects as well as their musical futures-until one evening at their home, when 21-year- old Wolfgang Mozart walks into their lives.
No longer a prodigy and struggling to find his own place in the music world, Mozart is enthralled with the Weber sisters: Aloysias beauty and talent captivates him; Josefas rich voice inspires him; Sophie becomes his confidante; and Constanze comes to play a surprising role in his life.
Eighteenth-century Europe comes alive with unforgiving winters and yawning princes; scheming parents and the enduring passions of young talent. Set in Mannheim, Munich, Salzburg and Vienna, Marrying Mozart is the richly textured love story of a remarkable historical figure-and four young women who engaged his passion, his music, and his heart. [via]
Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponteby Lorenzo Da Ponte, Elisabeth AbbottISBN 1417912219 (1-4179-1221-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Mozartby Wolfgang HildesheimerISBN 0374522987 (0-374-52298-7)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart'Book summary:As close to a definitive biography as we are likely to get, this is a new, unromanticized study of one of the most perennially popular composers of all time. The author demythologizes Mozart, revealing him as a flawed and puzzling human being but a matchless artist. [via]
Mozartby Eric BlomISBN 0460031570 (0-460-03157-0)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Mozartby Marcia DavenportISBN 038045534X (0-380-45534-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart'Book summary:[Read by Wanda McCaddon]
Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this biography recreates Mozart, the man and his music, against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and writing of Mozart was truly a labor of love, during which she retraced every journey he made, saw every dwelling (then extant) in which he had ever lived, every theatre where his works were first performed, and every library and museum where his manuscripts were then to be seen. In this eloquent work of historical reconstruction, Davenport lets her characters tell their own stories. She builds from Mozart's infancy toward the climactic meeting in 1787 of Mozart, Lorenzo Da Ponte, and Casanova in Prague, when Don Giovanni was being written, to Mozart's tragically early death. The result is a biography of such commanding stature that it has remained unassailable since its publication in 1932. [via] 
Mozartby Peter GayISBN 0143037730 (0-14-303773-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mozartby Michel Parouty, Celia SkrineISBN 0810928469 (0-8109-2846-9)
Softcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart'Book summary:Describes the composer's creation of his masterpiece symphonies, chamber music, and operas and describes his life from early childhood, through his prolific years, to his financial failure and tragically premature death. Original. [via]
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Mozart: A Cultural Biographyby Robert W. GutmanISBN 0156011719 (0-15-601171-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart: A Cultural Biography'Book summary:Readers who think of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) as the shrieking vulgarian depicted in Peter Shaffer's hit play (and movie) Amadeus will be astonished by the man they meet in this biography by music historian Robert Gutman: "affectionate and generous ... an austere moralist of vital force, incisiveness, and strength of purpose." Without scanting Mozart's often maladroit handling of his patrons or his earthy way with words ("Let the whole company of patricians lick my ass," he declared in a 1777 letter), Gutman portrays a musical genius who slowly and painfully achieved personal maturity as he emerged from the shadow of his domineering father. The rich cultural life of 18th-century Europe forms a vivid background for Mozart's professional and artistic evolution. And Gutman's descriptions of Mozart's work are models of music writing for the lay reader: they capture the brilliance and beauty of the great composer's art in easily accessible language, as in the analysis of The Marriage of Figaro's place in "a new aesthetic of surging movement ... the vocal and orchestral lines twine, separate, and reunite in confrontation, opposition, and accommodation, an ever-changing, effortless interlacing." The prose delineating Mozart's complex personality is just as full-bodied and perceptive. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Mozart: A Lifeby Maynard SolomonISBN 0060883448 (0-06-088344-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart: A Life'Book summary:Perhaps the most important Mozart biography ever written, this book is subtle, rich-textured, endlessly stimulating and provocative -- just like the man's music. [via]
Mozart Chamber Musicby Alexander Hyatt KingISBN 0563073071 (0-563-07307-1)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation
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The Mozart Compendium: A Guide to Mozart's Life and Musicby H. C. Robbins LandonISBN 0028713214 (0-02-871321-4)
Hardcover, Music Sales Corp
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The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spiritby Don CampbellISBN 0380974185 (0-380-97418-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit'Book summary:With a subtitle of Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit, the casual reader might jokingly ask if the book could also improve chances for world peace, bring free and open elections to third world countries, and give your wash whiter whites and brighter brights. Don Campbell's premise is, however, reasonably straightforward: he asserts that the kind of noise to which one is exposed can have important effects on mental and bodily health. As a trial, try protecting your hearing for a few days from the continuous barrage of noise in a typical urban environment; it really does seem to improve one's attitude and fatigue levels.
Where Campbell's ideas become more provocative is in the realm of music. Supported by much anecdotal evidence, he proposes that Classical music with a big "C" (the music of Mozart's period) can reach out to those who are mentally isolated from their fellows, like the autistic, and can help infants react and think better. (Will prenatal music classes be the next big trend for yuppie babies?) In addition, the music of Mozart contributes to the improved functioning of the higher cerebellar functions, including the ability to deal with logical and mathematical concepts, while contemporary rock actually decreases mental acuity. [via]
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Mozart: His Character, His Workby Alfred EinsteinISBN 0195007328 (0-19-500732-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart: His Character, His Work'Book summary:Written by one of the world's outstanding music historians and critics, the late Alfred Einstein, this classic study of Mozart's character and works brings to light many new facts about his relationship with his family, his susceptibility to ambitious women, and his associations with musical contemporaries, as well as offering a penetrating analysis of his operas, piano music, chamber music, and symphonies. [via]
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Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791by Volkmar BraunbehrensISBN 0060974052 (0-06-097405-2)
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Mozart Piano Concertosby Philip RadcliffeISBN 0563127716 (0-563-12771-6)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation
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The Mozart Seasonby Virginia Euwer WolffISBN 0439163099 (0-439-16309-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mozart Season'Book summary:While preparing for a performance in a prestigious competition, a young violinist discovers more about herself, her heritage, and the power of music. By the author of Probably Still Nick Swansen. Reprint. H. K. [via]
Mozart: The Golden Years 1781-1791by H. C. Robbins LandonISBN 0028720253 (0-02-872025-3)
Hardcover, Music Sales Corp
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Mozart:the Golden Years: The Golden Years, 1781-91by H. C. Robbins LandonISBN 0500276315 (0-500-27631-5)
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Mozart: The Man and the Artist As Revealed in His Own Wordsby F. KerstISBN 0486213161 (0-486-21316-1)
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Mozart Wind and String Concertosby Alec Hyatt KingISBN 0563127708 (0-563-12770-8)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation
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Mozart's Don Giovanniby Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN 0486249441 (0-486-24944-1)
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Mozart's Last Year/1791by Landon H.C. RobbinsISBN 0028725921 (0-02-872592-1)
Hardcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart's Last Year/1791'Book summary:When Haydn left on a concert tour to London in December 1790, Mozart said farewell forever, and most people assumed it was Haydn's health that he was worried about. As we know now, the elder composer was to live for almost two decades more; Mozart, a single year. It was to be a year in which he wrote The Magic Flute, La Clemenza di Tito, and the Clarinet Concerto, as well as most of the Requiem; it was also a year of mounting disappointment in his career as part of the Viennese musical establishment, and a year of growing debt. Robbins Landon is keen to debunk the myths: Mozart was not poisoned ,but died of progressive kidney failure, and Salieri was innocent of his death, though not of promoting his own career at Mozart's expense. Landon defends Mozart's wife, Constanze, against the libels of biographers, though at times his portrait of comfortable bourgeois monogamy sounds like special pleading and overlaps with hints of conscientious bohemian racketiness. This is a wonderful portrait of a great artist and the city where he lived; in passing, Landon tells us everything we need to know about musical life, Masonry, and the truth about that pauper's grave. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Lettersby Robert Spaethling, Spaethling, Robert (DRT)ISBN 0393328309 (0-393-32830-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Mozart's Magic FantasyISBN 1895404169 (1-895404-16-9)
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Mozart's Operasby Daniel Heartz, Thomas BaumanISBN 0520078721 (0-520-07872-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart's Operas'Book summary:Renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last and great decade of Mozart's operas. Mozart specialists will recognize some of Heartz's best-known essays here; but six pieces are new for the collection, and others have been revised and updated with little-known documents on the librettist's, composer's, and stage director's craft. All lovers of opera will value the elegance and wit of Professor Heartz's writing, enhanced by thirty-seven illustrations, many from his private collection.[via]
The volume includes Heartz's classic essay on Idomeneo (1781), the work that continued to inspire and sustain Mozart through his next, and final, six operas. Thomas Bauman brings his special expertise to a discussion of Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782). The ten central chapters are devoted to the three great operas composed to librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte--Le nozze di Figaro (l786), Don Giovanni (l787), and Così fan tutte (l790). The reader is treated to fresh insights on da Ponte's role as Mozart's astute and stage-wise collaborator, on the singers whose gifts helped shape each opera, and on the musical connections among the three works. Parallels are drawn with some of the greatest creative artists in other fields, such as Molière, Watteau, and Fragonard. The world of the dance, one of Heartz's specialties, lends an illuminating perspective as well.
Finally, the essays discuss the deep spirituality of Mozart's last two operas, Die Zauberflöte and La Clemenza di Tito (both l79l). They also address the pertinence of opera outside Vienna at the end of the century, the fortunes and aspirations of Freemasonry in Austria, and the relation of Mozart's overtures to the dramaturgy of the operas. 
Mozart's Operas: A Critical Studyby Edward J. DentISBN 0722254768 (0-7222-5476-8)
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Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies Documents, Scoreby Christoph Wolff, Mary WhittallISBN 0520213890 (0-520-21389-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies Documents, Score'Book summary:Mozart's unfinished Requiem has long been shrouded in mystery. Mozart undertook the commission for an Austrian nobleman, little knowing that he was to write a requiem for himself. Inevitably, the secrecy surrounding the anonymous commission, the circumstances of Mozart's death, the unfinished state of the work, and its completion under the direction of Mozart's widow, Constanze, have precipitated two centuries of romantic speculation and scholarly controversy.[via]
Christoph Wolff provides a critical introduction to the Requiem in its many facets. Part I of his study focuses on the tangled genesis and completion of the work and its fascinating early reception history until Constanze's death. Wolff summarizes the current state of research on the subject, provides new perspectives on Mozart's conception of the whole work, and surveys his contributions to the movements composed posthumously by his assistant, Süssmayr. Part II provides a musical analysis of Mozart's composition, including contextual, structural, and interpretive aspects. Part III consists of an annotated collection of the principal literary documents (1791-1839) that illuminate the fascinating early history of the Requiem.
The book concludes with a complete edition of the work that is at the center of Wolff's study, the authentic score of the Requiem--Mozart's fragment--supplemented by crucial excerpts from Süssmayr's 1792 Requiem completion.More editions of Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies Documents, Score:
Mozart's Sisterby Nancy MoserISBN 0764201239 (0-7642-0123-9)
Softcover, Bethany House Publishers
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Mozart, the 'Jupiter' Symphony: No. 41 in C Major, K. 551by Elaine R. SismanISBN 0521409241 (0-521-40924-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The New Grove Mozartby Stanley Sadie, John TyrrellISBN 0195169050 (0-19-516905-0)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Grove Mozart'Book summary:When the publishers of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians set out to revise their monumental reference work in the 1970s, they commissioned new biographies of many composers. They then extracted some of those biographies from the finished product, added some details to make them a more interesting sit-down read, and issued them as separate volumes. Unlike the complete Grove, this biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is both portable and affordable. Nearly one third of its length is devoted to a listing of his works, arranged by type (opera, sacred) and date. There are many biographies of Mozart on the market; this one makes a good starting place and handy reference. [via]
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Night Musicby Harrison Gradwell SlaterISBN 0451209729 (0-451-20972-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Music'Book summary:Includes CD of Mozart's piano music, performed by the author. Stranded in Milan by a train strike, a down-on-his-luck music scholar finds a mysterious document. Could it be the diary Mozart kept when he was an adolescent, traveling through Europe with his father? If authentic, the diary could catapult Matthew Pierce into wealth and fame. His search for the truth leads him into a dazzling world of Europe's wealthiest and most gifted musicians and aristocrats. But the brilliance of his surroundings is clouded by intrigue, threats, and murder. Matthew becomes both searcher and prey, and the peril mounts. Traveling across Europe with an entourage of divas and gentry, Matthew unravels the fiendish plots that threaten him and his friends, while giving us the Mozart diary, a new and delightful insight into the world of one of the greatest musicians ever to have lived. Harrison Slater, internationally known Mozart scholar and performer, makes a dazzling debut into the world of literary mysteries. [via]
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On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination, Aby Anthony BurgessISBN 039559510X (0-395-59510-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Peter Shaffer's Amadeusby Peter ShafferISBN 0060935499 (0-06-093549-9)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Shaffer's Amadeus'Book summary:0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award. In the United States, the play won the coveted Tony Award and went on to become a critically acclaimed major motion picture winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture.
Now, this extraordinary work about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is available with a new preface by Peter Shaffer and a new introduction by the director of the 1998 Broadway revival, Sir Peter Hall. Amadeus is a must-have for classical music buffs, theatre lovers, and aficionados of historical fiction.
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Peter Shaffer's Amadeus: ISBN 0451158946 (0-451-15894-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Peter Shaffer's Amadeus: ISBN 0060140321 (0-06-014032-1)
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Requiem in Full Scoreby Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN 0486253112 (0-486-25311-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Requiem in Full Score'Book summary:The Requiem was Mozart's final work, composed during the illness--probably a form of rheumatic fever, and almost certainly not poisoning by Salieri or anyone else--that took his life on December 5, 1791. He had completed much of it, and sketched out most of the remainder; the score was finished by his friend and student Franz Xavier Süssmayr. This is a rich, moving work, notable for such exquisite moments as the "Lacrimosa," and displaying Mozart's grasp of vocal writing to the fullest. The Dover edition of the full orchestral score is, like almost all of their publications of this sort, a reprint of an out-of-copyright score. Because it does display all the orchestral parts, it won't be suitable for use by the average church organist, but it should prove very useful to singers and the general music lover. [via]
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Requiem, K626, in Full Scoreby Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN 0486401162 (0-486-40116-2)
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Symphony No. 35 in d Major, K385, "Haffner": Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K425, "Linz" Symphony No. 38 in d Major, K504, "Prague"by Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN 048640420X (0-486-40420-X)
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What to Listen for in Mozartby Robert HarrisISBN 0140512969 (0-14-051296-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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What to Listen for in Mozart: The Essential Introduction to the World's Most Beloved Composerby Robert HarrisISBN 0743244044 (0-7432-4404-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Wind from America, 1778-1781by Claude ManceronISBN 0671680196 (0-671-68019-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartby Mike VeneziaISBN 0516445413 (0-516-44541-3)
Softcover, Childrens Pr
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Marriage of Figaro: Vocal Scoreby Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN 0793512085 (0-7935-1208-5)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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El estilo clasico/ The Classic Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethovenby Charles RosenISBN 8420685291 (84-206-8529-1)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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