Mozart the Performer: Variations on the Showman’s Art
Mozart was a showman before he was a composer, and the performing shaped everything he wrote.
Dorian Bandy reads Mozart’s career through his life as a keyboard virtuoso and improviser, arguing that the instincts of a performer working a room are visible throughout the compositions. It shifts the usual emphasis from the manuscripts to the concert platform, and explains a good deal about the music that way.
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Tyler Cowen
Dorian Bandy, Mozart The Performer: Variations on the Showman’s Art shows how Mozart, first and foremost, was a showman and that background shaped his subsequent output and career.
Source · December 2023
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