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The first volume presents Mozart’s correspondence from the Italian journeys through Mannheim, Paris and the Idomeneo period, preserving first-hand evidence about family relations, patrons, performers, travel and composition.

The second volume continues the correspondence through Mozart’s mature Viennese years and is particularly useful for questions of professional life, opera, commissions, finances and personal networks.

This biography or documentary study follows Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the personal, professional and cultural circumstances in which the music was created. The dossier links chronology with works, correspondence, institutions, patrons, performers and reception so that the volume can be used both as a narrative biography and as…

Einstein’s Mozart is one of the landmark synthetic studies of the twentieth century. Rather than separating a chronological biography from a catalogue of works, the author continually relates character, social environment and musical language. The book ranges across opera, symphony, concerto, chamber music, sacred music and the late…

This curated dossier identifies Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Friedrich Kerst (compiler/editor) as a distinct Library resource and makes it discoverable through normalized title and author forms. The work is valuable as a historical source, critical study or documentary witness…

Life of Mozart, Volume 1 by Otto Jahn is preserved here as a curated bibliographic dossier so that the work can be found reliably by title, author and normalized variants. Its principal value is historical and documentary: it provides a period perspective on life of mozart and complements…

Life of Mozart, Volume 2 by Otto Jahn is preserved here as a curated bibliographic dossier so that the work can be found reliably by title, author and normalized variants. Its principal value is historical and documentary: it provides a period perspective on life of mozart and complements…

Life of Mozart, Volume 3 by Otto Jahn is preserved here as a curated bibliographic dossier so that the work can be found reliably by title, author and normalized variants. Its principal value is historical and documentary: it provides a period perspective on life of mozart and complements…

This early music-biographical classic presents Haydn through a sequence of letters and then turns to Mozart, interspersing anecdote, aesthetic judgment and broad comments on European musical life. Stendhal’s enthusiasm gives the book unusual immediacy, but modern scholarship has established that substantial portions were derived from Giuseppe Carpani and…

The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Pianists. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant. It is especially useful for distinguishing primary…

This expanded dossier treats Mozart's Last Year 1791 as a substantial source on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference between first-person…

This dossier identifies The Musical Dialogue: Thoughts on Monteverdi, Bach and Mozart by Nikolaus Harnoncourt as a major source for the modern understanding of Baroque interpretation and historically informed performance. It is indexed by title, author and subject variants and highlights articulation, tempo, rhetoric, ornamentation, instrumental forces, source…

A curated dossier for The Operas of Mozart by William Mann. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles…

A curated dossier for Mozart’s Operas by Edward J. Dent. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles even…

Ferris’s volume assembles compact biographies of major German and Austro-German composers for the late nineteenth-century general reader. Its sequence helped popularize a canonical narrative running from Bach and Handel through Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to the Romantic generation and Wagner.