Mozart's Requiem
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Mozart's Requiem

Reception, Work, Completion

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Mozart's Requiem

Reception, Work, Completion

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Presenting a fresh interpretation of Mozart's Requiem, Simon P. Keefe redresses a longstanding scholarly imbalance whereby narrow consideration of the text of this famously incomplete work has taken precedence over consideration of context in the widest sense. Keefe details the reception of the Requiem legend in general writings, fiction, theatre and film, as well as discussing criticism, scholarship and performance. Evaluation of Mozart's work on the Requiem turns attention to the autograph score, the document in which myths and musical realities collide. Franz Xaver Süssmayr's completion (1791–2) is also re-appraised and the ideological underpinnings of modern completions assessed. Overall, the book affirms that Mozart's Requiem, fascinating for interacting musical, biographical, circumstantial and psychological reasons, cannot be fully appreciated by studying only Mozart's activities. Broad-ranging hermeneutic approaches to the work, moreover, supersede traditionally limited discursive confines.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781139533744
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Mozart’s Requiem
  3. Series editors
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Didection
  7. Contents
  8. Music examples
  9. Tables
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction: Mozart’s Requiem in context
  12. 1: The Requiem legend in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  13. 2: Criticism and scholarship from 1800 to the present day
  14. 3: The Requiem in performance
  15. 4: Mozart’s work on the Requiem: sounds and strategies
  16. 5: After Mozart: the Requiem completion, 1791–1792
  17. 6: Modern completions of the Requiem
  18. Epilogue: a Requiem for the future
  19. Appendix: original text of Franz Xaver Süssmayr’s letter to Breitkopf & Härtel (1800)
  20. Select bibliography
  21. Index