Mozart and His World

Simon P. Keefe is the J. R. Hoyle Chair of Music at the University of Sheffield and president of the Royal Musical Association. He is the author of five books, including Mozart’s Requiem: Reception, Work, Completion; Mozart in Vienna: The Final Decade; and Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth Century: Parallel and Intersecting Patterns of Reception. In addition, he has edited ten volumes, including, most recently, Vienna: A Musical History.

• Permissions and CreditsIntroduction / SIMON P. KEEFE Part I: EssaysSystematic Mozart / DORIAN BANDYMozart’s Early Viennese Quartets, K. 168–173, and the Question of Stylistic Continuity / EDWARD KLORMANTranscribing the Popular: Harmonie Arrangements and Opera Reception, ca. 1800 / AUSTIN GLATTHORNA Reading of The Magic Flute / EDMUND J. GOEHRINGSeduction and the (Mis)Representation of Love in Mozart’s Da Ponte Operas / JESSICA WALDOFFThe Importance of French Mozart Mysteries: Revisiting the Reception of Les mystères d’Isis (1801) / SIMON P. KEEFEOpera Seria and Cultural Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century Vienna: Mozart’s Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito in the Age of Napoleon / MARTIN NEDBAL Part II: DocumentsFriedrich Schlichtegroll’s Biography of Mozart: An Introduction and Reevaluation / SIMON P. KEEFEObituary for the Year 1791 by Friedrich Schlichtegroll / EDITED BY SIMON P. KEEFE, TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIEMozart in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1798–1803): Selected Articles and Reviews / INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY LISA DE ALWIS, TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE CodaUnderstanding Mozart: The Claims of History and Philosophy / LEON BOTSTEINIndexNotes on the Contributors