Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Standard Name: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Jennings
Like many of EJ 's collections, this includes tributes to some of her favourite artists, like Mozart and Hopkins . It ranges beyond private life to public life and the relation between the two. Behind...
Textual Production Anne Ridler
AR published an English translation of Mozart 's opera Cosi fan tutte.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Anne Ridler
AR 's earliest translations were from Italian, of Dante and Eugenio Montale . She first thought of translating a libretto for performance when she was asked to do so by Jane Glover , who later...
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF has carried out a great deal of scholarly commentary of a kind best calculated to be useful to readers (though she did not finish her MA thesis on nineteenth-century sexual fantasists like Ouida and...
Textual Production George Sand
After the death of a beloved grand-daughter, GS travelled with Manceau through Italy where she collected material for the novels Flavie, Constance Verrier, and a historical novel, Les beaux messieurs de Bois-Doré...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .
The title sounds like an allusion to such radical texts as Robert Bage 's Man...
Textual Production Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW published her fifth and least-known novel, After the Death of Don Juan, a story related to but differing widely from Mozart 's opera Don Giovanni.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production Rebecca West
Other books in the series included Stephen Leacock on Mark Twain and Sacheverell Sitwell on Mozart .
Orel, Harold. The Literary Achievement of Rebecca West. Macmillan.
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Textual Production Brigid Brophy
BB published Mozart the Dramatist, the result of a lifelong admiration.
Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press.
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Textual Production Brigid Brophy
The title is from an album inscription written (in English) by Mozart .
Brophy, Brigid. Reads. Penguin/Sphere.
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Textual Production Margaret Kennedy
In the years between the 1926 staging of The Constant Nymph and the appearance of Escape Me Never!, MK co-wrote with Basil Dean the play Come With Me (1934), and adapted Charles Dickens 's...
Textual Features Naomi Jacob
Characters in this book (stereotypes all, according to Paul Bailey) include Haydn , Mozart (a little, white-faced genius), Casanova (possessor of a strange, twisted smile), and the Young Pretender .
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
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Textual Features Virginia Woolf
VW 's first two published novels, The Voyage Out and Night and Day, both work in the mode of social comedy to explore the experiences of a young woman coming to grips with her...
Textual Features Vernon Lee
The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian , which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artist Guido Reni
Textual Features Mary Cowden Clarke
The labours that she details include not only regular artistic creation and routine performance and teaching duties, but also such matters as getting up a subscription to rescue from poverty Madame Sonnenberg (Mozart 's...

Timeline

July 1765: The child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...

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July 1765

The child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart left London, where he had resided throughout the previous year, playing before the royal family, and enjoying great popular success.

1 May 1786: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Le Nozze...

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1 May 1786

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's opera Le Nozze di Figaro (in English The Marriage of Figaro) opened on stage in Vienna.

26 January 1790: Mozart's opera Così Fan Tutte had its premiere...

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26 January 1790

Mozart 's opera Così Fan Tutte had its premiere in Vienna.

30 September 1791: Mozart's last opera, Die Zauberflöte or The...

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30 September 1791

Mozart 's last opera, Die Zauberflöte or The Magic Flute (strictly not an opera but a singspiel because of its spoken passages) opened in Vienna.

1816: Gioacchino Rossini's opera Il Barbiere di...

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1816

Gioacchino Rossini 's opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) had its first performance in Rome; its libretto, by Beaumarchais , is a prequel to The Marriage of Figaro, set by Mozart .

Texts

da Ponte, Lorenzo, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Cosi fan tutte Libretto. Translator Ridler, Anne, Perpetua, 1987.