Mozart the Dramatist
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Mozart the Dramatist

The Value of His Operas to Him, to His Age and to Us

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eBook - ePub

Mozart the Dramatist

The Value of His Operas to Him, to His Age and to Us

About this book

Brigid Brophy first published her passionate, profoundly original Mozart the Dramatist in 1964, revisiting it subsequently in 1988. Organised by theme, the text offers brilliant readings of Mozart's five most famous operas - Die EntfĂŒhrung aus dem Serail, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, CosĂŹ fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte - while a 1988 preface reconsiders Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito. Brophy's analysis is richly informed by her readings and interests in psychoanalysis, myth, and relations between the sexes, but her stress above all is on Mozart's 'unique excellence', his 'double supremacy' both as a 'classical' and 'psychological' artist.

'An illuminating, invigorating, thought-provoking and profoundly human book, of immense value to any lover of Mozart.' Jane Glover

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780571304721
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Note
  8. Brief Chronology
  9. Preface to the 1988 Edition
  10. I: The Importance of Mozart’s Operas
  11. II: Women and Opera
  12. III: Opera, Cities and Enlightenment
  13. IV: Singing and Theology
  14. V: The Quest for Pleasure
  15. VI: Anarchy, Impotence and Classicism
  16. VII: The Rococo Seducer
  17. VIII: Compulsive Seduction
  18. IX: ‘HĂ© Bien! La Guerre’
  19. X: Chivalry Inverted
  20. XI: Seduction in Mozart’s Operas
  21. XII: Mozart Proposes a Truce
  22. XIII: Hell, Love and Society—1
  23. XIV: ‘Die Zauberflöte’ Solved—1
  24. XV: ‘Die Zauberflöte’ Solved—2
  25. XVI: Hell, Love and Society—2
  26. XVII: The Exotic
  27. XVIII: Near the Core
  28. XIX: ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Hamlet’
  29. XX: Mozart and Brimstone
  30. XXI: ‘Such as the Father is, Such is the Son 
 the Father Eternal, the Son Eternal 
’
  31. XXII: Society’s Guilt
  32. XXIII: Enlightenment and Psychology
  33. XXIV: Mozart as Literature — and as Super-Literature
  34. Appendix: A Note on Professor Chailley’s ‘Magic Flute’
  35. Articles and Books Cited
  36. Index
  37. Copyright

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