On Mozart (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Approaching Mozart Denis Donoghe; 2. How extraordinary was Mozart? Howard Gardner; 3. Mozart and the transformational imperative David Henry Feldman; 4. On the economics of musical composition in Mozart's Vienna William J. Baumol and Hilda Baumol; 5. Mozart as a working stiff Neal Zaslow; 6. The challenge of blank paper: Mozart the composer Christoph Wolff; 7. Marianne Mozart Carissima Sorella Mia Maynard Solomon; 8. Mozart's concertos and their audience Joseph Kerman; 9. Mozart's tunes and the comedy of closure Wye J. Allanbrook; 10. Don Giovanni against the Baroque or the culture punished Michael P. Steinberg; 11. Nineteenth-century Mozart: the fin-de-siecle Mozart revival Leon Botstein; 12. The abduction from the theater: Mozart opera on film Stanley Kauffmann.