Books by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart: Letters (Everyman's Library Pocket Series)
Mozart's remarkable life was well and richly documented in letters: his own and those concerning him written by others. This volume brings together a fascinating selection, giving us a detailed portrait of the composer's life and times. Here are letters to and from Mozart's domineering father, Leopold, the earliest of which, addressed to a friend, describes the six-year-old Mozart's accomplishments. There is also a letter sent to the Royal Society in London from one of its members describing an astonishing encounter with the eight-year-old prodigy. Here are letters from the adolescent Mozart to his mother and sister; adoring, protective missives to his wife; and, from his later years, letter after letter to friends, family, former patrons, and fellow musicians begging for financial help.Mozart's correspondence is full of details that illuminate the quotidien aspects of his days, reveal the great joys and burdens of his musical genius, and provide us with a lively account of the musical politics in the courts and opera houses of eighteenth-century Europe. Finally, in a letter written by Mozart's sister-in-law, this splendid epistolary portrait of the great composer is completed with a deeply moving account of his last hours.
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Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Spaethling
"A wonderful collection that gives Mozart a voice as a son, husband, brother and friend." ―New York Times Book Review "Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authority all shine out from these letters."―Sunday Times (London). " In Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life, Robert Spaethling presents "Mozart in all the rawness of his driving energies" (Spectator), preserved in the "zany, often angry effervescence" of his writing (Observer). Where other translators have ignored Mozart's atrocious spelling and tempered his foul language, "Robert Spaethling's new translations are lively and racy, and do justice to Mozart's restlessly inventive mind" (Daily Mail). Carefully selected and meticulously annotated, this collection of letters "should be on the shelves of every music lover" (BBC Music Magazine). 16 pages of illustrations
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A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics)
A selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology.
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Requiem, K626, in Full Score (Dover Miniature Scores: Choral)
A masterpiece of the choral literature, Mozart's Requiem, his last work, was commissioned in the summer of 1791 but left incomplete at the time of the composer's death in December of the same year. His colleague Franz Süssmayer finished the work, based on sketches left by Mozart.
In the two centuries since its composition, the Requiem has become one of the most recorded and performed works in the repertoire. Reprinted here from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition, it combines orchestra, chorus, and four soloists in a deeply moving, elegiac work of glowing intensity.
This edition of the Requiem is in full score, with bar-numbered movements for easy reference. Ideal for study in the classroom, at home, or in the concert hall, this affordable, durable, and portable volume will be the edition of choice for music students and music lovers alike.
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Complete Sonatas and Variations for Violin and Piano, Series II
Twelve sonatas composed between 1781 and 1788 (K.376–380, K.402-–404, K.454, K.481, K.526 and K.547), among them the charming F Major Sonata, K.376, notable for its easy grace, and the showy and brilliant E-flat Major Sonata, K.380. Also included: two sets of variations on French songs, one on "La bergere Celimene" (K.359), the other on "Helas, J’ai perdu mon amant" (K.360). Reprinted from the definitive Breitkopf & Härtel edition. Piano part only.
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Così fan tutte
Translated from the Italian, "Cosi fan tutte" means "That's how all women act"; the libretto, the last of three Lorenzo da Ponte wrote for Mozart, concerns the behavior of women, particularly the behavior of young women in the throes of romantic love. Are they fickle? Are their affections mutable? Their virtue flexible? In "Cosi fan tutte, "Mozart""and Da Ponte answer with resounding affirmatives.
In the nearly 200 years since it was first performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna, "Cosi fan tutte "has waxed and waned and waxed again in popularity. The music, with its richness of melody, harmony, and texture, and its perfection of form, has never been considered less than brilliant. The libretto, however, has not been as well received as evidenced by attempts in the 19th century to "improve" it, making it more possible to the overly decorous sensibilities of the Victorians.
In examining the reaction of 19th-century opera goers, the noted British composer, conductor, and musicologist Spike Hughes laments, "The opera must indeed have seemed to them sadly untypical of the Divine Mozart, who not only seemed to enjoy this trivialities, not to say indecencies, of an exquisitely constructed libretto, but even went so far as to squander an unending stream of lovely music on worthless characters and contemptible situations."
The "worthless" characters are Ferrando and Guglielmo, two Italian army officers in love with two Neapolitan sisters, Fiodiligi and Dorabella. The "contemptible" situation is a wager and the comedy of deception that ensues: bragging of their ladies' fidelity, the two officers are challenged by a sage but cynical Don Alfonso who declares, "The faithfulness of woman is like the phoenix: everybody has heard about it, but nobody has ever actually seen it."
In the 20th century "Cosi fan tutte" has once again secured its rightful and prestigious place among the world's great operas. This volume, containing the full score with Italian and German text, is reproduced from one of the most complete, accurate, and scholarly editions available. It also contains a new translation of the German editors' frontmatter and critical commentary, which includes a review of dubious passages and text problems. Beautifully and clearly engraved, this modestly priced edition of "Cosi fan tutte" will be welcomed by musicians, students, and all opera lovers.
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Mozart's Don Giovanni (the Dover Opera Libretto Series) (Dover Books On Music: Voice) (Italian and English Edition)
Mozart and His Piano Concertos (Dover Books On Music: Composers)
This classic of music criticism provides detailed studies of 23 of Mozart's piano concertos. In addition to establishing the lines along which the genre developed, the concertos also shed light upon the technical and inspirational growth of their creator.
The first full-length survey devoted to these works, this scholarly book presents a full, concrete musical analysis that makes liberal use of musical examples — 417 in all — and presents authoritative information on the concertos' form, tone, style, and balance as well as the circumstances of their composition. The author compares and contrasts each piece with Mozart's other works and with compositions by Beethoven, Haydn, and other composers. A definite text for musicologists, performers, teachers, and students, this study's clarity and personable tone make it accessible to any lover of Mozart's music.
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Complete Serenades in Full Score, Series I (Dover Music Scores)
Some of Mozart's most enduring and popular music was originally composed for relatively minor occasions — garden parties, weddings, birthdays, home concerts for his friends, and the like. Among these compositions were the multi-movement instrumental pieces he called "serenades." Written in the 1770s and 1780s, they include such favorite compositions as Eine kleine Nachtmusik, the Serenata Notturna, A Musical Joke, the "Haffner" Serenade, and the "Posthorn" Serenade. This two-volume set contains all of Mozart's notturnas as well as the complete serenades.
Series I includes: Serenade in D Major, K.185/167a (strings & winds); Serenade in D Major, K.204/213a (strings & winds); Serenata Notturna, K.239 (strings & timpani); "Haffner Serenade, K.250/248b (strings & winds); Serenade in C Minor, K.388/384a (8 winds); and A Musical Joke (Ein musikalischer Spass), K.255 (strings & horns).
Reprinted from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition, these effervescent works are now readily available in these two sturdy, attractive, inexpensive volumes, inviting musicians and music lovers to savor and study their characteristic Mozartean clarity, invention, and charm.
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Piano Concertos Nos. 1-6 in Full Score (Dover Orchestral Music Scores)
Outstanding in their variety and creativity, Mozart’s piano concertos reflect his supremacy as a composer. He wrote the first of these precocious works in 1767, when he was 11 years old. Piano concertos continued to be a lifelong preoccupation for the composer, and these formative pieces foreshadow the even greater works to come. All possess his characteristic keyboard mastery, experimentation with texture, and a natural sensitivity to form and balance.
This edition completes Dover’s five-volume series of all 27 of Mozart’s concertos. It includes: Concerto No. l in F major, K.37; Concerto No. 4 in G major, K.41; Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, K.39; Concerto No. 5 in D major, K.175; Concerto No. 3 in D major, K.40; and Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, K.238.
The four earliest works, which display evidence of Leopold Mozart’s guiding hand, are based on themes by other composers. Nevertheless, they are transformed by the addition of interludes and episodes for orchestra. Concertos Nos. 5 and 6 are wholly original, and taken as a whole, this compilation offers a revealing look at the development of a budding genius. Pianists and all lovers of fine music will appreciate these seminal works, reproduced complete and unabridged from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel Complete Works edition.
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Exsultate, Jubilate and Other Sacred Music for Voices and Orchestra in Full Score (Dover Music Scores)
Among Mozart's most magnificent works are his compositions on sacred texts, scored for voices and various orchestral combinations. This volume features the brilliant "Exsultate, jubilate" (K165) the world-famous work that is a must in the repertoire of every soprano. Also includes "Tantum Ergo" (K197), "Sancta Maria, mater Dei" (K273), "Regina coeli" (K276), and "Vesperae de Domenica" (K321).
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Complete Piano Trios and Quartets and Piano Quintet (Dover Chamber Music Scores)
Few composers are so richly represented in concerts and recordings of chamber music as Mozart, and among his chamber works those with piano have long been special favorites of musicians and their audiences. This volume contains all eight piano trios, the two piano quartets and the piano quintet, reprinted from the definitive Breitkopf & Härtel edition. All these works display the melodic richness, inventiveness, and inimitable grace that characterize Mozart's finest compositions.
Contents: Piano Trio (Divertimento) in B-flat, K.254; Piano Trio in D Minor, K.442; Piano Trio in G Major, K.496; Piano Trio in E-flat Major, K.498 (for piano, clarinet and viola); Piano Trio in B-flat Major, K.502; Piano Trip in E Major, K.542; Piano Trio in C Major, K.548; Piano Trio in G Major, K.564; Piano Quartet in G Minor, K.478; Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, K.493; and Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, K.452 (for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn).
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Piano Concerto No. 20, K466, and Piano Concerto No. 21, K467 (Dover Miniature Music Scores)
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Music Scores
Considered two of Mozart's most important, far-reaching, and richly inventive piano concertos, the D minor, K466, and the C major, K467, represent the composer at his creative peak. Never before had Mozart so intensely explored the concerto form — with its inherent struggle of one individual voice against many. And yet the two works are very different — the D minor, tragic and intense; the C major, majestic and grand.
Both are published here in full score with bar-numbered movements. Ideal for study in the classroom, at home, or in the concert hall, this affordable, high-quality, conveniently sized volume will be the edition of choice for music students and music lovers alike.
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