Contents

Notes on the contributors

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Chronology of Mozart’s life and works  Simon P. Keefe

Introduction  Simon P. Keefe

Part IMozart in context

1  Mozart and Salzburg  Cliff Eisen

2  Mozart in Vienna  Dorothea Link

3  Mozart’s compositional methods: writing for his singers  Ian Woodfield

4  Mozart and late eighteenth-century aesthetics  David Schroeder

Part IIThe works

5  The keyboard music  W. Dean Sutcliffe

6  The concertos in aesthetic and stylistic context  Simon P. Keefe

7  The orchestral music  Simon P. Keefe

8  Mozart’s chamber music  Cliff Eisen

9  Mozart as a vocal composer  Paul Corneilson

10  The opere buffe  Edmund J. Goehring

11  Mozart and opera seria  Julian Rushton

12  Mozart’s German operas  David J. Buch

Part IIIReception

13  Mozart in the nineteenth century  John Daverio

14  Mozart and the twentieth century  Jan Smaczny

15  The evolution of Mozartian biography  William Stafford

Part IVPerformance

16  Mozart the performer  Katalin Komlós

17  Performance practice in the music of Mozart  Robert D. Levin

Notes

Selected further reading

General index

Index of Mozart’s works