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# **Rudolf Serkin, A Life** **Chapter 1 – Eger: Birth into a Vanished World (1903)** Rudolf Serkin was born on **28 March 1903** in Eger, a provincial town of the Austro-Hungarian Empire whose multicultural…

# **Rudolf Serkin, A Life – Stephen Lehmann, Marion Faber ** [https://classicalarchive.org/rudolf-serkin-a-life-stephen-lehmann-marion-faber/](https://classicalarchive.org/rudolf-serkin-a-life-stephen-lehmann-marion-faber/)** ** **Publication data** **Rudolf Serkin, A Life** **Stephen Lehmann & Marion Faber** * **First publication:** **2012** * **Publisher:** **Yale University Press** (New…

# **ARIA AND SONG (II) - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**) ** ## Mozart on *Il curioso indiscreto*: Success, Intrigue, and a Printed “Notice” (Letter of **2 July**) On **2…

# **ARIA AND SONG (I) - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** In this chapter—which is something like an **intermezzo**—we approach the final part of our investigation, the chapter devoted to…

# **CHURCH MUSIC (V)** **(Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** ## The C-minor Mass in Context: Between Bach and Beethoven It has been said—entirely rightly—that this unfinished Mass stands **midway between…

# **CHURCH MUSIC (IV)** **(Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** ## A Necessary “Revolution” in Mozart’s Inner and Professional Life So what, then, actually happened? A revolution had to occur simultaneously…

# **The Orchestral Concert as Tournament: From Concerto Grosso to Sinfonia Concertante (Book:** Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein) We are now entirely in the realm of concert music when to the…

# **Four-Hand Works and the Highest Form of Concertante Dialogue (Book:** Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein) The most striking examples of concert style we find in Mozart’s four-hand works for one…

# **Mozart’s works for Piano trio, Piano Quartets - (Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) The transition from the keyboard-and-violin sonatas to the trio for keyboard, violin, and cello occurred in…

# **Mozart’s works for violin and piano - (Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) Mozart began to write works for **keyboard and violin** in earnest only in **Mannheim**, when he was…

# **Concert Halls and Opera Houses – Music, Acoustics, and Architecture – Leo Beranek ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/concert-halls-and-opera-houses-music-acoustics-and-architecture-leo-beranek/](https://classicalarchive.org/concert-halls-and-opera-houses-music-acoustics-and-architecture-leo-beranek/) Concert Halls and Opera Houses – Music, Acoustics, and Architecture by **Leo Beranek** is universally…

# **PIANO WORKS - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** ## Mozart as Pianist and “Virtuoso” in His Own Sense Mozart was, as we know, a **great pianist**, one of the…

# **Mozart - Symphonies - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** ## I. Quantity, Survival, and the Problem of Definition Mozart wrote **more than fifty symphonies**, and only a very small…

# **DIVERTIMENTO, CASSATION, SERENADE - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** Mozart was born into an age when **the sharp boundaries** that later (by around **1800**) separated **chamber from symphonic**, **theatrical…

# **Beethoven, The Universal Composer – Edmund Morris ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/beethoven-the-universal-composer-edmund-morris/](https://classicalarchive.org/beethoven-the-universal-composer-edmund-morris/)** ** **Publication history** * **First edition (hardcover):** **2005**, published in the United States by **HarperCollins / Atlas Books** * **Paperback edition:**…

# **Franz Schubert, A Biography – Elizabeth Norman McKay ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/franz-schubert-a-biography-elizabeth-norman-mckay/](https://classicalarchive.org/franz-schubert-a-biography-elizabeth-norman-mckay/) ***Franz Schubert: A Biography*** by **Elizabeth Norman McKay** is widely regarded as **one of the most authoritative, balanced, and readable…

# **Antonio Vivaldi The Red Priest of Venice, by Karl Heller ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/antonio-vivaldi-the-red-priest-of-venice-by-karl-heller/](https://classicalarchive.org/antonio-vivaldi-the-red-priest-of-venice-by-karl-heller/)** ** ***Antonio Vivaldi: The Red Priest of Venice*** by **Karl Heller** is a **concise but authoritative scholarly biography**…

# **CHAMBER MUSIC FOR STRING INSTRUMENTS (1) - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** **When Mozart Wrote His First String Quartet** When Mozart composed his first string “quartet” (K. 80)—during his…

# **Mozart and Counterpoint (Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) What time and environment could offer him was **no longer genuinely living polyphony**, but rather **a survival—something rigid, petrified, a textbook…

# **Fragments and the Creative Process (Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) Mozart’s habitual—indeed almost instinctive—use of a compositional “springboard” can explain why **so many fragments and opening sketches** have survived.…

# **Vivaldi, Life and Works by Michael Talbot** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/vivaldi-life-and-works-by-michael-talbot/](https://classicalarchive.org/vivaldi-life-and-works-by-michael-talbot/) **The Book** **Vivaldi**, written by **Michael Talbot**, is widely regarded as **the most authoritative modern biography of Antonio Vivaldi in English**. First…

# **Vivaldi – Genuis of the Baroque by Marc Pincherle (Biography) ** [https://classicalarchive.org/vivaldi-genuis-of-the-baroque-by-marc-pincherle-biography/](https://classicalarchive.org/vivaldi-genuis-of-the-baroque-by-marc-pincherle-biography/) **The Book** **Vivaldi: Genius of the Baroque**, written by **Marc Pincherle**, is one of the **foundational modern biographies** of **Antonio Vivaldi**.…

# **Patriotism and Education** **(Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) It is striking how closely this letter resembles another, likewise addressed to the Rhineland: Emperor Joseph II’s letter of **13 July…

# **Catholicism and Freemasonry** **(Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) The attitude of educated and high-ranking Catholics in the eighteenth century toward religion was aptly captured—long before Mozart—by “Madame,” **Élisabeth Charlotte**,…