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A comprehensive, up-to-date, resource providing an essential framework for understanding Mozart's most-performed opera and its extraordinary afterlife.

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Mozart's greatest works were written in Vienna in the decade before his death (1781–1791). This biography focuses on Mozart's dual roles as a performer and co

This Companion presents a new understanding of the relationship between music and culture in and around the nineteenth century, and encourages readers to explor