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La musica di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart è sempre stata per l'Occidente lo specchio in cui ammirare un'immagine di perfetta e nitida classicità. Ma che cosa si nasconde dietro di essa? Quali esperienze l'hanno ispirata, formando la personalità tormentata e geniale del grande compositore? Maynard Solomon traccia in questa biografia un preciso profilo dell'uomo e del musicista, analizzandone la lunga battaglia per affermarsi, nonché gli aspetti più o meno noti della sua personalità: la dirompente carica erotica, il gusto per il linguaggio osceno, l'attrazione per la dimensione carnevalesca, la fede massonica. L'indagine sulla personalità di Mozart dà ancora più rilievo all'unicum del suo stile musicale: la creatività delle serenate giovanili, l'originale impianto delle composizioni mature, la singolare commistione di bizzarro e sublime che caratterizza alcuni brani strumentali. E, infine, quella particolare inquietudine che pervade le ultime, altissime opere.
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- Pagine: 648
- Data di uscita: 20-12-2017
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Solomon attempts to do the impossible in this book -- to get inside the unconscious minds of the Mozarts on the basis of historical documents and letters -- and fails. That this book is so widely admired is, I think, more a testimony to the reading public's desire to understand Mozart on this level
https://thebestbiographies.com/2019/0... Maynard Solomon's "Mozart: A Life" was published in 1995 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for biography. Solomon co-founded Vanguard Records, has taught at Columbia, Yale, Harvard and the Julliard School of Music, and authored several books including a highly Leggi tutto
I have read this book many times, and it always strikes me what a profoundly human connection Maynard Solomon has with his subject, Wolfgang Mozart. At times, Solomon's analysis may veer a bit heavily toward the Freudian, but there is no denying that Leopold Mozart was a profound influence on his so Leggi tutto
Almost as good as Solomon's biography of Beethoven--possibly even better because of the number of myths Solomon debunks. I particularly liked the analysis of Mozart's finances in the final years: he didn't die "a pauper" (as the myth goes), but was successfully working himself out of some tough time Leggi tutto
Would give this 3.5 stars if possible. Solomon is brilliant when sticking with close readings of Mozart's music and his account of Mozart's last years is both coruscating and a needed reimagining of that time of his life. His application of Freudian criticism to the life is problematic--much of it t Leggi tutto
Yay, I’m done! This wasn’t just a .”Biography”, but a dissertation of every minute detail of Leopold snd Wolfgang Mozart! If you love minutiae, you’ll love reading about exactly how many floriens, ducats, pounds and pence along with other currencies that Leopold made from young Mozart’s talents; the Leggi tutto
This was 50% biography, 25% musicology and 25% psychoanalysis. Solomon tries hard to delve into the psychology of the child Mozart and his relationship with his father - while this definitely is a central theme to Mozart’a story, it is a little overemphasised at times. As a work of biography, howeve Leggi tutto
Superb biography and surprisingly gripping read. Both the era and the personalities of the principles--Wolfgang and his father Leopold, as well as the mother to a lesser extent--are vivid. I read and listen to pieces of the music as I go. Solomon is so insightful about the psychological cross-curren Leggi tutto
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