Mozart's Ghosts: Haunting the Halls of Musical Culture

by Mark Everist

Mozart's Ghosts traces the many lives of this great composer that emerged following his early death in 1791. Crossing national boundaries and traversing two hundred years-worth of interpretation and reception, author Mark Everist investigates how Mozart's past status can be understood as part of today's veneration. Everist forges new paths to reach the composer, examining a number of ways in which Western culture has absorbed the idea of Mozart, how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195389174
• ISBN13: 9780195389173
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"