Getting The Most Out Of Mozart: The Vocal Works

Getting the Most Out of Mozart - The Vocal Works. (Unlocking the Masters Series, No. 4). Unlocking the Masters. Softcover with CD. 250 pages. Amadeus Press #1574671065. Published by Amadeus Press.

Mozart was the first composer whose operas have never left the international repertoire, and for many he remains one of the finest vocal composers who ever lived. In a sense, all of his music is vocal music, depending as it does on arresting, singable melodies, but in his great operas, single arias and sacred works, Mozart put his melodic gift to work, revealing the subtleties and expressive potential of a wide range of texts in languages ranging from Italian to Latin to German. In every case, he created masterpieces, from operas such as The Marriage Of Figaro * Don Giovanni * and The Magic Flute * to the sacred choral motet Ave Verum Corpus * and, of course, the unfinished Requiem, his final project.

This second Getting the Most Out of Mozart volume in our Unlocking the Masters series focuses on Mozarts great operas and other vocal works, but also discusses numerous lesser-known compositions, from operas he wrote as a child to