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The Cambridge Companion to Mozart.

Publication: Notes
Publication Date: 01-SEP-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1327 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Cambridge Companion to Mozart.(Classical Composers)(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
The Cambridge Companion to Mozart. Edited by Simon P. Keefe. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [xvii, 272 p. ISBN 0-521-80734-4. $70 (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-00192-7. $26 (pbk.).] Music examples, facsimiles, bibliography, indexes.

The Cambridge Companion to Mozart examines the composer and his music from a variety of perspectives. Seventeen complementary essays address the contexts in which Mozart lived and worked, the music itself and its reception, and issues of performance. Intended for students and scholars, as well as general readers, the book "aims to bridge the gap between scholarly and popular images of the composer" through presenting "up-to-date scholarship" (p. 2).

Practically all the volume's essays do indeed challenge popular conceptions of Mozart and his music. The opening chapters on context tackle one of the more persistent falsehoods: the belief that the composer was neglected and mistreated during his lifetime. Chapter 1, written by Cliff Eisen, discusses musical life in Salzburg during Mozart's tenure there. He concludes that the city was "hardly a musical backwater" (p. 13) and while Archbishop Colloredo was undoubtedly "a difficult employer ... the Mozarts [father and son] were not good employees" (pp. 19-20). He further argues that the Mozarts deliberately...

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