Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past An Essay on Mozart and Modernist Aesthetics

A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans. For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and scholars of Mozart's music have taken a rejection of transcendence as ax...

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Main Author: Goehring, Edmund J. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Rochester Boydell & Brewer 2018
Series:Eastman Studies in Music
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