Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past: An Essay on Mozart and Modernist Aesthetics

by Edmund J Goehring and Edmund J. Goehring

A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans.

For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and scholars of Mozart's music have taken a rejection of transcendence as axiomatic. This essentially modernist, antiromantic orientation attempts to neutralize the sorts of aesthetic experiences that presuppose an enchantment with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469302
• ISBN13: 9781580469302
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"