Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood

303 Pages·2021·11.638 MB·English

by  Adeline Mueller

Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood
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Mozart and
the Mediation of
Childhood
Adeline Mueller
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Names: Mueller, Adeline, author.
Title: Mozart and the mediation of childhood / Adeline Mueller.
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Series: New material histories of music | Includes bibliographical
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Subjects: LCSH: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756– 1791. | Mozart,
Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756– 1791— Influence. | Children— Austria—
History. | Music and children— Austria— History.
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Contents
List of Abbreviations * ix
List of Figures and Musical Examples * xi
Introduction * 1
Chapter 1
Precocious in Print * 11
Chapter 2
Music, Philanthropy, and the Industrious Child * 45
Chapter 3
Acting Like Children * 79
Chapter 4
Kinderlieder and the Work of Play * 105
Chapter 5
Cadences of the Childlike * 143
Chapter 6
Toying with Mozart * 175
Acknowledgments * 197
Notes * 201
Bibliography * 243
Index * 275

Abbreviations
Abert Hermann Abert, W. A. Mozart, trans. Stewart Spencer, ed.
Cliff Eisen (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007
[1919– 1921])
AmZ Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (Leipzig, 1798– 1848)
Anderson Emily Anderson, trans. and ed., The Letters of Mozart and His
Family, 2nd ed., prepared by A. Hyatt King and Monica Caro-
lan (London: Macmillan, 1966 [1938]), 2 vols.
Documents Otto Erich Deutsch, Mozart: A Documentary Biography, trans.
Eric Blom, Peter Branscombe, and Jeremy Noble (Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 1965)
Dokumente Otto Erich Deutsch, Mozart: Die Dokumente seines Lebens
(Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1961)
Edge/Black Mozart: New Documents, ed. Dexter Edge and David Black,
first published June 12, 2014, https:// sites .google .com /site
/mozart documents/
Halliwell Ruth Halliwell, The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Con-
text (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)
Köchel 6 Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Chronologisch- thematisches Ver-
zeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts, 6th
ed., ed. Franz Giegling, Alexander Weinmann, and Gerd
Sievers (Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1964 [1862])
MBA W. A. Bauer, Otto Erich Deutsch, and Joseph Heinz Eibl,
eds., Mozart: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen, Gesamtausgabe, rev.
ed. (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2005 [1962– 1975]), 7 vols. [refer-
ences are to letter number and line]