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MOZART AND OTHER ESSAYS ON COURTLY ART
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| By: |
Norbert Elias, Eric R. Baker (Editor), Stephen Mennell (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£50.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1906359091 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781906359096 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2010 |
| Series: |
Collected Works of Norbert Elias v. 12 |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more than a domestic servant. This title presents an account of this extraordinarily gifted artist born into a society that did not yet possess either the concept of 'genius' or (at least in music) that of freelance artist. |
| Synopsis: |
Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more than a domestic servant. Unlike his father, however, his personal makeup was already that of the freelance artist who sought to follow the flow of his own artistic conscience and imagination rather than the courtly conventions and standards of the day. In "Mozart: the Sociology of a Genius", Elias paints a portrait of this extraordinarily gifted artist born into a society that did not yet possess either the concept of 'genius' or (at least in music) that of freelance artist. The apparent contradictions of his character - the refined elegance of his compositions and the coarseness of his lavatorial humour - reflect his uncomfortable and eventually tragic straddling of two social worlds. The volume also includes two major essays on cognate topics, previously unpublished in English: on the courtly painter Watteau's "Embarkation for Cythera", and on 'The fate of German Baroque poetry: between the traditions of court and middle class'. |
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col. Illustrations |
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Ireland |
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University College Dublin Press |
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