Mozart and Other Essays on Courtly Art: Volume 12

by Norbert Elias

Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more than a domestic servant. Unlike his father, however, his personal makeup was already that of the freelance artist who sought to follow the flow of his own artistic conscience and imagination rather than the courtly conventions and standards of the day. In "Mozart: the Sociology of a Genius", Elias paints a portrait of this extraordinarily...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906359091
• ISBN13: 9781906359096
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University College Dublin Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"