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The family into which Mozart was born has never received a rigorous contextual study which does justice to the complexity of its relationships or to its interactions with colleagues, friends, and neighbours in Mozarts native city, Salzburg. Most biographies of Mozart have undervalued the manypassages in the rich family correspondence which do not bear directly on him. This book draws on the neglected material, most of which has never been translated into English. At the heart of the work is a detailed examination of the letters, supplemented by little-known archival material from thepapers of the Berchtold family, into which Mozarts sister Nannerl married. Additional information concerning S...
"Moralische Geschichten" sind eine um 1780 aufgekommene Textsorte zur Bildung und Erziehung einfacher Leute, vornehmlich verfasst von Geistlichen, publiziert in Schulbüchern, Zeitungen, Kalendern und Katechismen. Die Autorin erschließt das Textcorpus bibliographisch, stellt die weitgehend unbekannten Verfasser vor und kategorisiert Motive, Ideen und Programme dieser Texte.
Guides the reader through the unusual and fascinating keyboard holdings of sixteen nations, thirty-five cities, and forty-seven museums.
Although eighteenth-century Viennese keyboard music, especially by such composers as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, is among the most popular ever written, there has been surprisingly little serious research into the instruments for which it was composed. This book fills that gap. Based on evidence from primary source material, much of it previously undiscovered or neglected, Maunder traces the history and development of the various keyboard instruments available in Vienna throughout the eighteenth century--harpsichords, clavichords, and pianos--and their use by composers and performers.
Dieses umfassende Nachschlagewerk bündelt die Ergebnisse von fast zwei Jahrhunderten internationaler Forschung im Bereich volkstümlicher Erzähltradition. Die Autoren vergleichen die reichen Sammelbestände mündlich und schriftlich überlieferter Erzählungen aus den verschiedensten Ethnien und zeigen die sozialen, historischen, geistigen und religiösen Hintergründe auf.