Mozart in Anglophone Cultures

Mozart in Anglophone Cultures brings together papers given at the 15th Salzburg Annual Conference on English Literature and Culture held in 2006 to commemorate Mozarts 250th birthday. The volume concentrates in particular on the reception of Mozart and his work in English literature and film, on English translations and adaptations of Mozarts operas and songs, on the performance history of Mozarts operas on stages in the English-speaking world, and on relationships and influences between Mozart and English composers. Aspects covered in the volume include: Peter Shaffers Amadeus as historiographic metafiction, the reception of Mozart in Australia, Mozarts works as intertext in James Joyces Ulysses and Barbara Trapidos Temples of Delight, Mozarts influence on American ballet and W. H. Audens re-writing of The Magic Flute. In its focus on the creative reception of Mozart rather than on Mozarts oeuvre, this book hopes to show the importance of a living myth in various cultural traditions (Victorian, Modernist and Postmodernist) and, conversely, to reveal Mozart and his own ages mode of listening as being equally embedded in cultural traditions.