The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia

Cliff Eisen, Simon P. Keefe

Cambridge University Press, Jan 4, 2006 - Music - 662 pages

Mozart's enduring popularity, among music lovers as a composer and among music historians as a subject for continued study, lies at the heart of The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. This reference book functions both as a starting point for information on specific works, people, places and concepts as well as a summation of current thinking about Mozart. The extended articles on genres reflect the latest in scholarship and new ways of thinking about the works while the articles on people and places provide historical framework, as well as interpretation. It also includes a series of thematic articles that cast a wide net over the eighteenth century and Mozart's relationship to it: these include Austria, Germany, aesthetics, travel, Enlightenment, Mozart as a reader and contemporaneous medicine, among others. The worklist provides the most up-to-date account in English of the authenticity and chronology of Mozart's compositions.

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Previously, Keefe (music, City Univ., London) edited The Cambridge Companion to Mozart, an excellent, topically arranged collection of scholarly articles on Mozart's life and works. This volume ...

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About the author

Cliff Eisen is Reader in Music at King's College London.

Simon P. Keefe is Senior Lecturer in Music at City University London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
• Editors: Cliff Eisen, Simon P. Keefe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1139448781, 9781139448789
• Length: 662 pages
• Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Musicals; Music / Genres & Styles / Opera; Music / History & Criticism; Music / Individual Composer & Musician