Life of Mozart: Volume 2 Jahn Grove Townsend Paperback 9781108064835

Life of Mozart: Volume 2Author(s): Otto Jahn, Pauline D. Townsend, George Grove\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108064835, 978-1108064835\nSynopsis\nIn terms of musical composition, all but the first five of his thirty-five years were astoundingly productive for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [tel]. A stream of glorious symphonies, piano concertos, chamber music, operas and the sublime but unfinished Requiem poured from his pen. German philologist and archaeologist Otto Jahn [tel] was inspired to write a scholarly biography of Mozart following a conversation at Mendelssohn's funeral in 1847. He immersed himself in intensive research on the composer and his music, publishing the first edition of this landmark work in four volumes between 1856 and 1859. A second edition followed in 1867, incorporating new material and making use of Kchel's 1862 catalogue of Mozart's works. It is from this edition that.