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The Black Dog Music Library presents Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concertos.Amazon.com Review
This line of books--with compact discs tucked into thecovers--from the Black Dog Music Library and EMI Classical offer agreat concept for the neophyte classical music lover, or for anyonewho wants to know a little more than CD liner notes typically offerabout a piece of music. In this case, the music consists of a pair ofpiano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, No.20 in D minor,K. 466, and No. 21 in C, K. 467, commonly known these days by the nameof a movie in which it was featured, Elvira Madigan. Thesoloist in both concertos is the late Hungarian pianist Annie Fischer;in the first, Sir Adrian Boult conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra; inthe second, Wolfgang Sawallisch holds the baton. Although they datefrom 1959 and 1960, respectively, these are very worthwhileperformances, remastered for compact disc. The book includes an essayby David Foil on Mozart's life (not entirely accurate; he repeats themyth that Mozart never made any money, when in fact Mozart made plentyof money but spent it just as fast as he got it), a note on Mozart'sinstruments, one on the concerto form and an explanation of just whatthose K. numbers mean. Finally, there is a blow-by-blowexamination of what's going on in the concertos themselves. Budgetpriced, these can be useful tools for learning more aboutmusic. --Sarah Bryan Miller ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Composers - Austria; Composers; Composers/ Biography; Biography ... Read more

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Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death in 1791, this book is designed to be a guide to the composer's works and is aimed at the music-lover who wishes to read something informative about any particular piece. Although there are many books which deal with the handful of famous operas, symphonies, concertos, or string quartets upon which Mozart's reputation rests, this collection contains in a single volume details about any work composed by Mozart and where, when and why he wrote it, what it is like, and what special significance it may have. ... Read more

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Compleat Mozat
a good book on Mozart if you want an overview of his whole collection.I was hoping for more like in Hurwitz's very helpful book -- what exactly is a sonata? what is a ABA structure, Hurwitz opens the door

RATED 5-STARS WORLDS #1 MOZART REFERENCE BOOK - THE COMPLEAT MOZART by PROFESSOR NEAL ZASLAW
RATED 5-STARS BY MOZART AUDIOPHILES THE WORLDS #1 MOZART REFERENCE BOOK OF MOZART'S COMPLETE 600+ CLASSICAL WORKS. THE COMPLEAT MOZART IS FOUND IN MOST MOZARTEAN'S BOOK COLLECTIONS!

THE COMPLEAT MOZART: A GUIDE TO THE MUSICAL WORKS OF WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
BY CORNELL UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR NEAL ZASLAW & WILLIAM COWDERY

HARDCOVER BOOK DATE: 1990
HARDCOVER BOOK LENGTH: 357 PAGES

HIGHLY READABLE AND AUTHORITATIVE, THE COMPLEAT MOZART PROVIDES THE READER WITH EXPERTLY RESEARCHED ESSAYS AND FASCINATING INSIGHTS FROM OVER 800 DISTINGUISHED CLASSICAL MUSIC SCHOLARS ABOUT WOLFGANG MOZART'S REMARKABLE LIFE, HOW HE COMPOSED HIS IMMORTAL 600+ CLASICAL MUSIC WORKS, AND WHY HE BECAME THE WORLD'S GREATEST CLASSICAL MUSIC GENIUS!

DESIGNED FOR THE LAYPERSON, THE COMPLEAT MOZART EDUCATES THE READER WITH THESE MAIN TOPICS:
1. EASILY INDEX REFERENCING OF MOZART'S COMPLETE 600+ WORKS USING KOCHEL NUMBERS
2. MOZART'S PERSONAL LIFE
3. WHERE, WHEN, AND WHY MOZART COMPOSED HIS MANY DIFFERENT CLASSICAL MUSIC GENRES [SYMPHONIES, PIANO CONCERTOS, VIOLIN CONCERTOS, WIND CONCERTOS, SERENADES, DIVERTIMENTI, & CHAMBER MUSIC]
4. WHAT CLASSICAL MUSIC INSTRUMENTS MOZART USED TO SCORE HIS CLASSICAL WORKS AND HOW THEY SOUND MUSICALLY
5. THE SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE THAT MOZART'S UNIQUE CLASSICAL WORKS REPRESENT IN THE CLASSICAL MUSIC WORLD

PROFESSOR ZASLAW'S THE COMPLEAT MOZART CONTAINS FIFTEEN [15] FULLY DETAILED CHAPTERS. THE FIRST EIGHT [8] CHAPTERS OF THE COMPLEAT MOZART CONTAINS MOZART'S VOCAL MUSIC THAT INCLUDES: CHURCH MUSIC, CANTATAS, ORATORIOS, MASONIC MUSIC, THEATRE MUSIC, OPERAS, BALLET, CONCERT ARIAS, CONCERT DUETS, CONCERT TRIOS, AND CONCERT QUARTETS.

THE COMPLEAT MOZART'S LAST SEVEN [7] CHAPTERS FEATURES MOZART'S MAINSTREAM CLASSICAL MUSIC:
1. CHAPTER 9 - PIANO CONCERTOS, STRING CONCERTOS [VIOLIN CONCERTO, SINFONIA CONCERTANTES, CONCERTONE]
& WIND CONCERTOS [CLARINET, OBOE, BASSOON, FLUTE, FLUTE & HARP, & HORNS]
2. CHAPTER 10 - SYMPHONIES & SYMPHONY SERENADES
3. CHAPTER 11 - DANCES
4. CHAPTER 12 - SERENADES, DIVERTIMENTOS, & MARCHES [ORCHESTRAL & NON ORCHESTRAL]
5. CHAPTER 13 - CHAMBER MUSIC WITHOUT A KEYBOARD [STRING QUINTETS, HORN
QUINTET, CLARINET QUINTET, STRING QUARTETS, FLUTE QUARTETS, OBOE QUARTET]
6. CHAPTER 14 - CHAMBER MUSIC WITH A KEYBOARD [VIOLIN SONATAS, PIANO
QUARTETS, PIANO TRIOS, PIANO WIND QUINTET, CLARINET TRIO (PIANO, CLARINET, VIOLA),
PIANO SONATA FOR 2 PIANOS, PIANO SONATA FOR FOUR-HANDS,
7. CHAPTER 15 - SOLO KEYBOARD MUSIC [PIANO SONATAS]

ABOUT MOZART'S KOCHEL NUMBERING SYSTEM
WOLFGANG MOZART USED NO NUMBER SYSTEM TO CATALOGE HIS 600+ CLASSICAL WORKS. THE KOCHEL NUMBERING SYSTEM IS THE MOST POPULARLY USED CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE FOR WOLFGANG MOZART'S 600+ CLASSICAL WORKS. WHEN YOU SEE A MOZART CLASSICAL WORK, THE K OR KV IS THE ABBREVIATION FOR THE ASSIGNED KOCHEL NUMBER. FOR EXAMPLE, MOZART'S LAST PIANO CONCERTO NO.27 WAS ACCORDING TO KÖCHEL'S COUNTING, THE 595TH CLASSICAL WORK THAT MOZART COMPOSED. THUS, PIANO CONCERTO NO.27 IS DESIGNATED K.595 OR KV595. USED EXCLUSIVLEY FOR MOZART, THE KOCHEL NUMBERING SYSTEM'S CATALOGUE NUMBERS NOT ONLY ESTABLISH CHRONOLOGY, BUT ALSO PROVIDE AN EASY TO REMEMBER NUMBER INDEX TO CLASSIFY AND REFERENCE ALL OF MOZART'S 600+ CLASSICAL WORKS.

ABOUT BOOK AUTHOR - PROFESSOR NEAL ZASLAW
NEAL ZASLAW IS THE HERBERT GUSSMAN PROFESSOR OF MUSIC AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY. HE HAS A PH.D. FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. NEAL ZASLAW BEGAN HIS CLASSICAL MUSICAL CAREER THE 1960S AS FLUTIST IN LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC. IN 1982, PROFESSOR ZASLAW SUPERVISED THE WORLD'S FIRST CD RECORDING OF MOZART THE COMPLETE SYMPHONIES (NOS. 1- 41, PLUS 27 OTHER SYMPHONIC WORKS] 19-CD BOX SET BY CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD AND LONDON'S LEGENDARY ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC. TIME MAGAZINE CALLED MOZART THE COMPLETE SYMPHONIES `ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CD PROJECTS IN THE HISTORY OF MOZART RECORDINGS." THE NEW YORK TIMES DUBBED NEAL ZASLAW `MR. MOZART" FOR ORGANIZING THE 1991-92 MOZART BICENTENNIAL AT LINCOLN CENTER WHICH STAGED PERFORMANCES OF ALL OF MOZART'S WORKS.

ABOUT WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 -1791)
HIGHLY REGARDED AS A MUSICAL GENIUS AND THE WORLD'S GREATEST CLASSICAL COMPOSER, WOLFGANG MOZART COMPOSED 600+ CLASICAL MUSIC WORKS DURING HIS TOO SHORT 35 YEAR LIFETIME.

NOT ONLY DID WOLFGANG MOZART INVENT THE MODERN PIANO CONCERTO, HE ALSO INNOVATED AND PERFECTED THE MODERN SYMPHONY, DIVERTIMENTO, SERENADE, VIOLIN CONCERTO, WIND CONCERTO, VIOLIN SONATA, PIANO QUINTET, PIANO QUARTET, PIANO TRIO, MODERN OPERA, AND MANY OTHER CLASSICAL MUSIC GENRES. MOZART'S TRUE GENIUS IS EVIDENCED BY HIS UNIQUE ABILITY TO COMPOSE CLASSICAL MUSIC OF A TOTALLY NEW STYLE WHOSE SOUND DYNAMICS CONTAINED BRAND NEW STRUCTURES, RHYTHMS, MELODIES, HARMONIES, AND TEXTURES!

WOLFGANG MOZART'S MIDDLE NAME AMADEUS MEANS "BELOVED OF GOD" IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE.

IN 1785, FAMED COMPOSER FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN TOLD WOLFGANG MOZART'S FATHER LEOPOLD ON HIS VISIT TO SALZBURG, AUSTRIA: "BEFORE GOD AND AS AN HONEST MAN I TELL YOU THAT YOUR SON (WOLFGANG MOZART) IS THE GREATEST COMPOSER KNOWN TO ME EITHER IN PERSON OR BY NAME."

An impressive guide to Mozart's music
With the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birthday in 2006, the music world's attention will again turn to the great composer from Salzburg - and this most-impressive book can serve as a guide to exploring the deeper recesses of Mozart's huge output of music(some 636 compositions).This is one of the finest - and certainly most complete - guides to Mozart's music in print.It is monumental in scope, scholarly in its research yet friendly in its prose.In "The Compleat Mozart," this enormous output (for 35 short years) is broken down into 15 categories:

VOCAL MUSIC
1. Music for the Catholic Church
2. Cantatas and Oratorios
3. Masonic Music
4. Theater Music
5. Concert Arias, Duets, Trios and Quartets
6. Songs and Vocal Ensembles
7. Canons

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
8.Church Sonatas
9.Concertos
10. Symphonies
11. Dances
12. Serenades, Divertimentos and Marches
13. Chamber Music
14. Chamber Music with Keyboard
15. Solo Keyboard Music

And within each of the above categories are many sub-categories (such as quintets, quartet, trios and duos for chamber music).So, it is easy to see why this book is called "The Compleat Mozart."You will find notes here on not only the more well-known genres and works but also the more obscure ones not found in most other books on Mozart (such as dances, masonic music, divertimenti, concert arias).

For each of the 15 categories, the authors first set the historical stage with some fascinating story telling of interesting background events and circumstances of Mozart's life surrounding the compositions.In this, Mozart's musical development as a composer is carefully traced from the first works to the late works with thoughtful analysis and curiously-detailed ancedotes. Then, each work is taken individually in order of its Kochel number, giving first the date and circumstances of composition then elaborating on the music within the various movements (musical forms, uniquenesses, significance, "firsts" etc).There is a good balance between the historical context and "program notes" - although at times there is a bit more on details like first publication and performance that might not be as interesting to some.There are also two pages of explanation of the Kochel System of numbering.With such details, one might expect such a book as this to be overly technical and dry; however, "The Complaet Mozart" is anything but this.There are plenty of fascinating and colorful details of Mozart's life and revealing personal quotations from his many letters to keep a flow more like a good novel.Also, the many nice illustrations of people, places and instruments add variety and help break up pages of pure text.

Other recommended books on Mozart's music that give lots of musical analysis are: (1) David Hurwitz' excellent 2005 book on Mozart (Unlocking the Masters Series), (2) Melvin Berger's "Guide to Chamber Music," (3) Steinberg's "The Concerto" and "The Symphony" and (4) Robert Harris' "What to Listen for in Mozart."These books all give a more detailed "play-by-play" of the major works where "The Compleat Mozart" gives more depth of the history and comprehensiveness of works covered.Each has its strength and scope, but the true Mozart afficianato should not be without this monumental and complete guide.It is a prestigious reference work that makes a fine lifelong investment for one's classical library (its not going out of style anytime soon).Additionally, the hardcover binding, thick paper, easy-to-read typeset and attractive layout are all really high quality and most attractive to satisfy the most discriminating bibliophile. It even feels special to hold and never ceases to inspire.Most recommended, especially as a way to expand one's horizons beyond the core repertoire. 5 stars (not 4).

Best 1-volume synopsis of all of the Master's works
And that about says it all. Some pieces are graced by a paragraph, and some (Sym. 41, various opera) by a couple of pages. I won't let this book go (along with Alfred Einstein's study); I consult it all the time before listening and purchasing Mozart music. I find the reviews right on. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

extremely informative book
I have been doing a major project at school which Mozart and his life are a base.My teacher ordered this book for our use and i was enthralled by it.I have always been a fan of mozart and there is not much that i don'talready know about, but this book is one of the best i have read.Theinformation is absolute in its entirety.A little slow on the uptake, butonce you are in, you are held in its power. ... Read more

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Urxtext edition of this complete collection of sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... Read more

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Don't be in a hurry . . . product less than perfect . . .
I ordered the urtext edition of Mozart Sonatas and Three Fantasias on December 26, 2009. I received it January 26, 2010. There was no explanation why it took a month to ship.

Also, some of the music print is missing above the first line: top of Sonata 3 page 24, for example. But since I really do need this music to make a deadline, I will accept it rather than risk months of waiting for a perfect copy.

Considering the snail's pace with no explanation and less than perfect (new) product, there is no way I can give a stellar review and rating. Sorry.

right for the price
The scores are generally accurate and I love that it's Urtext and without much editorial suggestions, in fact, there isn't any single writing through out the book, which comes to the reason why it is only three stars: no fingering at all. Other bothersome defects are its bindings (mine's already fallen apart and I've only had it for less than a year.) Also, it doesn't contain the complete sonatas. Lastly, though the scores are generally easy to read, but I did find some faded prints and measures (in fact, a lot of them) that should be spread longer for easy reading are instead squashed together.

I'd buy a more expensive book for better quality instead of this one.

Amazing Book!
It's great to see a book with the complete sonatas form Mozart. The score is very accurate and is easy to read. It has a Fac-simile from the original score by Mozart. I love this book!If you like Mozart and know how toplay a piano this book is for you! ... Read more

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Composed in Salzburg in the years of Mozart’s late youth, from 1773 to 1780, these 13 masterpieces include the much admired Symphonies No. 25 in G minor (the "Little G Minor") and No. 29 in A Major. All 13 bear the exhilarating stamp of his genius, and number among the most performed and recorded works in the orchestral repertoire. Reprinted from the definitive Breitkopf & Härtel editions.
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Wonderful Mozart Score
A very easy to read and comprehensive score to Mozart's middle symphonies.It's durable and the print is large (9x12).It lays flat for study or enjoyment.It's a must for both professionals, students, and listeners.

Excellent
There isn't much to say about a score, except that Dover consistently does them perfectly. And Mozart's Symphonies Nos. 22 - 34 is no exception: the user-friendly format and legible music make for the highest quality score available today. If you want to see some of Mozart's greatest symphonies in their purest forms, do not delay in purchasing this one. You cannot go wrong with Dover. ... Read more

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A biography of the composer from his days as a boy wonder to his adult success, his last years, and his death. ... Read more

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, vollständiger Taufname: Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (* 27. Januar 1756in Salzburg; † 5. Dezember 1791 in Wien), war ein Komponistzur Zeit der Wiener Klassik. Sein umfangreiches Werk genießt weltweite Popularität und gehört zu den bedeutendsten im Repertoire der klassischen Musik. Er selbst nannte sich meist Wolfgang Amadé Mozart.
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