Mozart's Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mozart's Women write by Jane Glover. This book was released on 2013-04-18. Mozart's Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women. He loved and respected them, composed for them, performed with them. This unique biography looks at his interaction with each, starting with his family (his mother, Maria Anna and beloved and talented sister, Nannerl), and his marriage (which brought his 'other family', the Weber sisters). His relationships with his artists are examined, in particular those of his operas, through whose characters Mozart gave voice to the emotions of women who were, like his entire female acquaintance, restrained by the conventions and structures of eighteenth-century society. This is their story as well as his -- and shows once again that a great part of the composer’s genius was in his understanding and musical expression of human nature. Evocative and beautifully written, Mozart’s Women illuminates the music, the man, and above all the women who inspired him. 'Jane Glover has pulled off a coup des livres with her fresh take on Mozart's life and work’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Readable, informative and moving...Her passion for the music shines through this touching, vividly told story' Sunday Times
Mozart's Women
Mozart's Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mozart's Women write by Jane Glover. This book was released on 2005. Mozart's Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A chronicle of the women who inspired, fascinated, and, at times, disappointed Mozart reveals the important role they played in shaping the characters that appeared in the operas he wrote.
Mozart's Women
Mozart's Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mozart's Women write by Jane Glover. This book was released on 2006. Mozart's Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women. This biography looks at his interaction with each, starting with his family (his mother, Maria Anna and beloved and talented sister, Nannerl), and his marriage (which brought his 'other family', the Weber sisters). It examines his relationships with his artists.
Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas
Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas write by Kristi Brown-Montesano. This book was released on 2021-11-09. Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni’s story the only one—or even the most interesting one—in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it’s Mozart’s men who have mattered most. Too often, the female characters have been understood from the male protagonist’s point of view or simply reduced on stage (and in print) to paper cutouts from the age of the powdered wig and the tightly cinched corset. It’s time to give Mozart’s women—and Mozart’s multi-dimensional portrayals of feminine character—their due. In this lively book, Kristi Brown-Montesano offers a detailed exploration of the female roles in Mozart’s four most frequently performed operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. Each chapter takes a close look at the music, libretto text, literary sources, and historical factors that give shape to a character, re-evaluating common assumptions and proposing fresh interpretations. Brown-Montesano views each character as the subject of a story, not merely the object of a hero’s narrative or the stock figure of convention. From amiable Zerlina, to the awesome Queen of the Night, to calculating Despina, all of Mozart’s women have something unique to say. These readings also tackle provocative social, political, and cultural issues, which are used in the operas to define positive and negative images of femininity: revenge, power, seduction, resistance, autonomy, sacrifice, faithfulness, class, maternity, and sisterhood. Keenly aware of the historical gap between the origins of these works and contemporary culture, Brown-Montesano discusses how attitudes about such concepts—past and current—influence our appreciation of these fascinating representations of women.
Handel in London
Handel in London - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handel in London write by Jane Glover. This book was released on 2018-12-04. Handel in London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King George II and the composer was George Freidrich Handel. Handel, then still only twenty-seven and largely self-taught, would be at the heart of music activity in London for the next four decades, composing masterpiece after masterpiece, whether the glorious coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest, operas such as Rinaldo and Alcina or the great oratorios, culminating, of course, in Messiah. Here, Jane Glover, who has conducted Handel’s work in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world, draws on her profound understanding of music and musicians to tell Handel’s story. It is a story of music-making and musicianship, but also of courts and cabals of theatrical rivalries and of eighteenth-century society. It is also, of course the story of some of the most remarkable music ever written, music that has been played and sung, and loved, in this country—and throughout the world—for three hundred years.
