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In this fascinating study of Mozart's operas, Nicholas Till 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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The Salzburg into which Mozart was born in 1756 was a small independent state sandwiched uncomfortably between Austria and Bavaria, ruled by a prince-archbishop.

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  • Title Mozart and the Enlightenment: Truth, Virtue, and Beauty in Mozart's Operas
  • Author Nicholas Till
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Printing
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date 1994-06-01
  • ISBN 9780393313956 / 0393313956
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.14 x 1.18 in (23.52 x 15.60 x 3.00 cm)
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.1

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  • New York Times, 03/31/1996, Page 28
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