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a| Mozart and the Enlightenment :
b| truth, virtue, and beauty in Mozart's operas /
c| Nicholas Till.
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a| 1st American edition.
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a| New York :
b| W.W. Norton,
c| 1993.
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a| xi, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
b| illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ;
c| 25 cm
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a| unmediated
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a| Includes bibliographical references and index.
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g| Introduction:
t| Enlightenment and the eighteenth century --
t| Salzburg and the years of travel: 1756-1781.
t| The education of a bourgeois artist --
t| La finta giardiniera --
t| Opera and the Enlightenment --
g| The German artist --
t| Zaide --
t| Idomeneo --
t| Vienna --
g| The years of optimism: 1781-1786 --
t| Vienna and the Enlightenment --
g| Mozart's arrival in Vienna --
t| Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail --
t| Freemasonry and the Catholic Enlightenment --
t| The return to Italian opera --
t| Le nozze di Figaro --
t| The meaning of classicism --
g| The years of retreat: 1786-1791 --
t| The collapse of Josephinism --
t| Don Giovanni --
t| Cosi fan tutte --
t| La clemenza di Tito --
t| Die Zauberflote.
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a| This study of Mozart's operas shows that the composer was not a "divine idiot" but an artist whose work was informed by the ideas and discoveries of the Enlightenment. Examining the dramatic emergence of a modern society in eighteenth-century Austria, the author draws on such famous writers and thinkers of the time as Richardson, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Goethe, Schiller, and Blake to reappraise the history and meaning of the Enlightenment. And of Mozart's role within it. He evokes for us the Vienna of the 1780s, a world of intense intellectual argument, political debate, and religious inquiry, which deeply influenced the philosophical content of Mozart's operas. From the early La Finta Giardiniera, based on Richardson's Pamela, to Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, designed to support the political aims of Emperor Joseph II; from Le nozze di Figaro, a profound exploration of marriage as a human and social. Institution, to the post-Enlightenment Zauberflote, the operas bear witness to the era's changing views and to Mozart's own quest for personal and artistic identity.
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a| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
d| 1756-1791.
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