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- Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Papa and the Matador, Alive and Dead
- Chapter 2 Biographical and Critical Narratives and Perspectives, 1811–1830
- Chapter 3 Anniversaries, Commemorations, Writings
- Chapter 4 Scholarship and Fiction in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1861–1890
- Chapter 5 Anniversaries in Context, 1891–1914
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Anniversaries, Commemorations, Writings
The Developing Reputations of Haydn and Mozart, 1831–1860
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 August 2023
- Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Papa and the Matador, Alive and Dead
- Chapter 2 Biographical and Critical Narratives and Perspectives, 1811–1830
- Chapter 3 Anniversaries, Commemorations, Writings
- Chapter 4 Scholarship and Fiction in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1861–1890
- Chapter 5 Anniversaries in Context, 1891–1914
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the juggernaut of Mozart reception is witnessed in full flow – in momentous biographies, lavish anniversary celebrations, delightful fiction, and laudatory criticism. Musicians and writers had become increasingly invested in Mozart; any questioning of his genius, or collision between legends and realities in the life story, could elicit a torrent of argument and counter-argument.1 His quasi-sacred status is captured in a humorous exchange from The Musical World (1841). Deemed a heretic for questioning Mozart’s instrumentation in the Don Giovanni overture, Henry Tilbury confessed that ‘there is no such wretch living (at least I hope not) that would attempt to tarnish the bright and glorious halo of Mozart’s name’; he was duly admitted – tongue firmly in cheek – by the ‘Lord High Archbishop of the “Musical World” … into the bosom of the “Mother Church” again’.2
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- Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth CenturyParallel and Intersecting Patterns of Reception, pp. 86 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023