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Acta Mozartiana AM AMZ MISM M]b MT

Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (Leipzig) Mitteilungen der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum Mozart-] ahrbuch Musical Times

1. Documents Anderson, Emily, ed. and trans.: Letters of Mozart and his Family

(London, 1938, 3/1985) [LMF] Bauer, Wilhelm A., Deutsch, Otto Erich, and Eibl, Joseph Heinz:

Mozart: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen, 7 vols. (Kassel, 1962-75) Deutsch, Otto Erich: Mozart: Die Dokumente seines Lebens (Kassel,

1961, suppl. 1978); Eng. trans., Mozart: a Documentary Biography (London, 1966) [MDB]

Eisen, Cliff: New Mozart Documents: a Supplement to Otto Erich Deutsch's 'Mozart: Die Dokumente seines Lebens', (London, 1991) [NMD]

Leitzmann, Albert: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Berichte der Zeitgenossen und Briefe (Leipzig, 1926)

Schurig, Arthur: Konstanze Mozart: Briefe, Aufzeichnungen, Dokumente 1782-1842 (Dresden, 1922)

2. Works purporting to contain original testimony [Arnold, I. T. F. C.:] Mozarts Geist (Erfurt, 1803) Belmonte, C.: Die Frauen im Leben Mozarts (Augsburg and Berlin,

1905) Genast, A.: [memoir], Acta mozartiana, xxvii/4 (1980), 83 Holmes, Edward: Life of Mozart (London, 1845, 1912 edn.) Jahn, Otto: W.A. Mozart (Leipzig, 1856-9): Eng. trans., Life of Mozart

(London, 1891)

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-: Gesammelte Aufsatze uber Musik (Leipzig, 1866) Kayser, J.F.: Mozart-Album (Hamburg, 1856) Marignano, Nerina Marignano di, transcr. and compiled: A Mozart

Pilgrimage: Being the Travel Diaries of Vincent and Mary Novello in the year 1829, ed. Rosemary Hughes (London, 1955) [Novello]

Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, xii, no.45 (Leipzig, 2 June 1840), 180 Niemtschek, Franz: Leben des K.K. Kapellmeisters Wolfgang Gottlieb

Mozart, nach Originalquellen beschrieben (Prague, 1798); Eng. trans. (London, 1956)

Nissen, Georg Nikolaus von: Biographie W.A. Mozarts (Leipzig, 1828) Rochlitz, Johann Friedrich: 'Verbiirgte Anekdoten aus Wolfgang

Gottlieb Mozarts Leben', Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, Leipzig (i, 1798-9), 17, 49, 81, 113, 145, 177, 289, 480, 854; iii (1800-01), 450, 493, 590) [AMZ]

-: 'Raphael und Mozart', AMZ, ii (1799-1800), 641-53 -: 'Ein guter Rath Mozarts', Fur Freunde der Tonkunst, ii (Leipzig,

1825), 281-304 Schlichtegroll, Friedrich: M ozarts Leben (Graz, 1794) Schlosser, J. A.: Mozarts Biographie (Prague, 1828)

3. Secondary works: books Abert, Hermann: W. A. Mozart (Leipzig, 1919-21; 10/1985) Angermiiller, Rudolph: 'Auf Ehre und Credit': die Finanzen des W. A.

Mozart (Munich, 1983) Autexier, Philippe A.: Mozart et Liszt sub rosa (Poitiers, 1984) Bar, Carl: Mozart: Krankheit - Tod- Begrdbnis (Salzburg, 1967, 2/

1972) Blom, Eric: Mozart (London, 1935, rev. 1962) Bliimml, Emil Karl: Aus Mozarts Freundes- und Familienkreis,

(Vienna, Prague and Leipzig, 1923) Boschot, Adolphe: Mozart (Paris, 1935) Braunbehrens, Volkmar: Mozart in Wien (Munich, 1986); Eng. trans.,

Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791 (London, 1989) Breakspeare, E. J.: Mozart (London, 1902) Brophy, Brigid: Mozart the Dramatist (London, 1964, 2/1988) Burk, John Naglee: Mozart and his Music (New York, 1959) Carr, Francis, Mozart and Constanze (London, 1983) Chailly, Jacques: La flute enchantee, opera mat;onnique (Paris, 1968);

Eng. trans., The Magic Flute (London, 1972) Cotte, Roger: La musique mat;onnique et ses musiciens (Braine-le­

Comte, 1975)

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Curzon, Henri de: Mozart (Paris, 1920) Dalchow, Johannes, Duda, Gunter, and Kerner, Dieter: Mozarts Tod

1791-1971 (Pahl, 1971) Daumer, G. F.: Aus der Mansarde, iv (Mainz, 1861) Davies, Peter J.: Mozart in Person. His Character and Health (New

York and London, 1989) Deutsch, Otto Erich: Mozart und die Wiener Logen (Vienna, 1932) Ehrenwald, J.: Neurosis in the Family and Patterns of Psychosocial

Defence: a Study of Psychiatric Epidemiology (New York, 1963) Eibl, Joseph Heinz: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Chronik eines Lebens

(Kassel, 1965) Einstein, Alfred: Mozart: his Character, his Work (London, 1946,

/1971) Favier, Georges: Vie de W. A. Mozart par Franz Xaver Niemetschek

precedee du necrologe de Schlichtegroll (St Etienne, 1976) Forbes, Elliot, ed.: Thayer's Life of Beethoven (Princeton, 1967) Gheon, Henri: Promenades avec Mozart (Paris, 1932), Eng. trans. as In

Search of Mozart (London, 1934) Grosser, J. E.: Lebensbeschreibung des k.k. Kapellmeisters W. A.

Mozart, (Breslau, 1826) Haldane, Charlotte: Mozart (London, 1960) Haas, Robert: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, (Potsdam, 1933, 2/1950) Hildesheimer, Wolfgang: Mozart, (Frankfurt, 1977), Eng. trans. (Lon-

don, 1983) Hoffmann, E. T. A.: 'Don Giovanni' in Six German Romantic Tales,

trans. R. Taylor (London, 1985) Hutchings, Arthur: Mozart: the Man: the Musician (London, 1976) Hussey, Dyneley: Wolfgang Amade Mozart, (London, 1928, 2/1933) Keller, Otto: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Sein Lebensgang nach den

neuesten Que !len geschildert (Berlin and Leipzig, 1926) Keys, Ivor: Mozart: his Music in his Life, (St Albans, 1980) King, Alec Hyatt: Mozart: a Biography with a Survey of Books,

Editions and Recordings (London, 1970) -: Mozart in Retrospect: Studies in Criticism and Bibliography,

(London, 1955) Kreitmeier, Josef: W. A. Mozart: eine Charakterzeichnung des grossen

Meisters nach den literarischen Quellen (Dusseldorf, 1919) Levey, Michael: Life and Death of Mozart (London, 1971) Ludendorff, Mathilde: Mozarts Leben und Gewaltsamer Tod (Munich,

1936) Massin, Jean and Brigitte: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Paris, 1959)

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Maunder, Richard: Mozart's Requiem: On Preparing a New Edition (Oxford, 1988)

Moberley, Robert B.: Three Mozart Operas, (London, 1967) Morike, Eduard: Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag (Stuttgart and

Augsburg, 1856); Eng. trans., Mozart's journey to Prague (London, 1957)

Neumayr, Anton: Musik und Medizin am Beispiel der Wiener Klassik (Vienna, 1987)

Nettl, Paul: Mozart and Masonry (New York, 1957) -: Mozart in Bohmen (Prague, 1938) Nohl, Ludwig: Mozarts Leben (Leipzig, 1877); Eng. trans. The Life of

Mozart (London, 1877) Ottaway, Hugh: Mozart (London, 1979) Oulibicheff, Alexander: Nouvelle biographie de Mozart (Moscow,

1843) Paumgartner, Bernhard: Mozart (1927; Zurich, 1945) Pushkin, Alexander: Mozart and Salieri (1830), trans. A. Wood (Lon­

don, 1982) Rau, Heribert: Mozart: ein Kunstlerleben (Frankfurt, 1858; Leipzig,

5/1887) Robbins Landon, H. C.: Mozart and the Masons: New Light on the

Lodge 'Crowned Hope' (London, 1982) -: Mozart: The Golden Years (London, 1989) -: 1791: Mozart's Last Year (London, 1988) Sadie, Stanley: Mozart (London, 1965) -: The New Grove Mozart (London, 1982) Saint-Foix, Georges de: Les symphonies de Mozart (Paris, 1932), Eng.

trans. (London 194 7) Schenk, Erich: W. A. Mozart: eine Biographie (Zurich, Vienna and

Leipzig, 1955); Eng. trans., Mozart and his Times (London 1960) Schiedermair, Ludwig: Mozart: sein Leben und seine Werke (Munich,

1922) Schmid, E. F.: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Lubeck, 1934) Schurig, Arthur: Wolfgang Amade Mozart (Leipzig, 1913, 2/1923) Sitwell, Sacheverell: Mozart (London, 1932) Stendhal, [Beyle, M.-H.]: Vie de Mozart (Paris, 1814; 1970) Steptoe, Andrew: The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas (Oxford, 1988) Tenschert, Rudolf: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburg, 1952) Thayer, A. W.: Salieri (Kansas City, 1989) Thomson, Katharine: The Masonic Thread in Mozart (London, 1977) Turner, W. J.: Mozart: the Man and his Works (London, 1938)

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Tyson, Alan: Mozart: Studi ?S of the Autograph Scores (London, 1987) W angermann, Ernst: The Austrian Achievement (London, 1973) Wyzewa, Theodor de and Saint-Foix, Georges de: W. A. Mozart: sa vie

musicale et son oeuvre (Paris, 1912-46) Zaslaw, Neal: Mozart's Symphonies: Context, Performance Practice,

Reception (Oxford, 1989)

4. Secondary works - Articles Bar, Carl: 'Er war ... kein guter Wirth: eine Studie iiber Mozarts

Verhaltnis zum Geld', AM, xxv (1978), 30-53 Barraud, J.: 'A queUe maladie a succombe Mozart?', La chronique

medicate, xxii (15 Nov 1905), 737-44 Biba, Otto: 'Grundziige des Konzertwesens in Wien zu Mozarts Zeit',

M]b, 1978-9, 132-43 Boissevain, Willem: 'Neue Erklarung der Todesursache Mozarts: "Hit­

ziges Frieselfieber" war bakterielle Herzklappenentziindung', MISM, xxxviii (1990)

Curl, J. S.: 'Mozart considered as a Jacobin', Music Review, xxxv (1974), 131-41

Davies, Peter J.: 'Mozart's Illnesses and Death', MT, cxxv, (1984), 437-41, 554-61

-: 'Mozart's Illnesses and Death', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, lxxvi (1983), 776-85

-: 'Mozart's manic-depressive tendencies', MT, cxxvii (1987), 123-6, 191-6

Deutsch, Otto Erich: 'Die Legende von Mozarts Vergiftung', M]b 1964, 7-18

Dittersdorf on Mozart, AMZ, i (1798-9), 379-82 (March 1799) Eibl, Joseph Heinz: 'SiiBmayr und Constanze', M]b 1976-7, 277-80 Greither, Aloys: 'Mozart und die A.rzte, seine Krankheiten und sein

Tod', Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, lxxxi (27 Jan and 3 Feb 1956), 121-4

-: 'Noch einmal: Woran ist Mozart gestorben?', MISM, xix/3-4 (1971 ), 25-7

Gruber, Gernot: 'Mozart und die Nachwelt', AM, xxxii (1985), 53-8 -:'Die Mozart-Forschung im 19.Jahrhundert', M]b 1980-83, 10-17 Heartz, Daniel: 'Constructing Le nozze di Figaro', journal of the Royal

Musical Association, cxii (1986-7), 77-98 -: 'Mozart and his Italian contemporaries: La Clemenza di Tito', M]b

1978-9, 275-93 Henneberg, G.: 'Der Einfluss der Philosophie Hegels auf das

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Mozart-Bild in der ersten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts', MJb 1978-9), 257-62

Heuss, Alfred: 'Das damonische Element in Mozarts Werken', Zeitschrift der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft, v (1906-7), 175-86

Hormayr, J.: 'Mozart', Osterreichischer Plutarch, viii (1807), 129-40 Kerner, Dieter: 'Mozarts Todeskrankheit', AM, x (1963), 5-10 -: 'Probleme einer Mozart-Pathographie', Der Deutsche Apotheker,

xxiii (1971), 589-92 Kraemer, Uwe: 'Wer hat Mozart verhungern lassen?', Musica, xxx

(1976), 203-11 Kramer, K.: 'Strittige Fragen in der Mozart-Biographie', AM, xxxiii

(1976 ), 75-84 McClymonds, Marita P.: 'Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and opera seria

in Florence as a reflection of Leopold II's musical taste', MJb 1984-5, 61-70

Moore, Julia: 'Mozart in the Market-Place', Journal of the Royal Musical Association, cxiv (1989), 18-42

Morrow, MagS.: 'Mozart and Viennese Concert Life', MT, cxxvi (1985), 453-4

Miinster,Robert: 'Nissens "Biographie W. A. Mozarts" ',AM, ix(1962), 2-14

Price, Curtis: 'Italian Opera and Arson in Late Eighteenth-Century London', Journal of the American Musicological Society xlii (1989),

Schefer, L.: 'Mozart und seine Freundin', Orpheus (1841), 273-339 Schickling, Dieter: 'Einige ungeklarte Fragen zur Geschichte der

Requiem-Vollendung', MJb 1976-7, 265-76 Schuler, Heinz: 'Freimaurer und Illuminaten aus Alt-Bayern und

Salzburg und ihre Beziehungen zu den Mozarts', MISM, xxv/1-4 (1987), 11-39

Smyth, F.: 'Brother Mozart of Vienna', Transactions of Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, lxxxvii (1974), 37-73

Staehelin, Martin: 'Zum Verhaltnis von Mozart- und Beethoven-Bild im 19. Jahrhundert', MJb 1980-83, 17-22

Steptoe, Andrew: 'Mozart and Poverty: a Re-examination of the Evidence', MT, cxxv (1984), 196-201

Wagner, Hans: 'DasJosephinische Wien undMozart', MJb 1978-9,1-13

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5. General Abrams, M. H.: The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the

Critical Tradition (New York, 1958) Balazs, E. H., Hammermayer, L., Wagner, H., and Wojtowicz, J.:

Beforderer der Aufkliirung in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Freimaurer, Gesellschaften, Clubs (Berlin, 1979)

Bernhart, F.: 'Freemasonry in Austria', Transactions of the Ars Quatuor Coronatorum (1963 ), 1-7

Burke, P.: Tradition and Innovation in Renaissance Italy (London, 1974)

Camus, Albert: L'homme revolte (Paris, 1951) Dean, Winton: Handel (London, 1980) Dickson, P. G. M.: Finance and Government under Maria Theresa

1740-1780 (Oxford, 1987) Fauchier-Magnan, The Small German Courts of the Eighteenth

Century (London 1958) Fischer, F. Germany's Aims in the First World War (London, 1967) Langsam, W. C.: 'Francis II and the Austrian Jacobins', American

Historical Review (April1945), 471-90 Ligou, D., ed.: Histoire des francs-Mar;nns en France, (Toulouse, 1981) Lindner, D.: Ignaz von Born, Meister der Wahren Eintracht: Wiener

Freimaurerei im 18.]ahrhundert (Vienna, 1986) Murray, P., ed.: Genius: The History of an Idea (Oxford, 1989) Roberts,]. M.: The Mythology of the Secret Societies (London, 1972) Sagarra, E.: A Social History of Germany 1648-1914 (London, 1977) Schiller, F.: Ober naive und sentimentalische Dichtung (1795) Taylor, R.: The Romantic Tradition in Germany (London, 1970) T rousson, R.: Le theme de Promethee dans la litterature Europeene

(Geneva, 1 964) Wagner, H.: 'Die Freimaurer und die Reformen Kaiser Josephs II',

Quatuor Coronati ]ahrbuch xiv (1977), 55-73 Wangermann, E.: From Joseph II to the ]acobin Trials (Oxford, 1969)

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Abert, Hermann, 40, 119, 129, 165, 166-7, 168

academies and public concerts, performances in private houses, 16, 185, 232, 237-41, 246, 252

Accademia Filarmonica, Bologna, 170 acqua toffana, 37, 47, 61 Ahlwardt, Hermann, 35 Allegri's Miserere, 145, 170 Andre, Johann Anton, 103 antifeminism, 118, 135-6, 140 Arco, Count, 184 Arnold, Ignaz T. F. C., 11, 19, 73, 79,

163, 225; critic of poison story, 22, 32; Mozart burnt out, 212-13; Mozart's debauchery, 86, 96, 98, 120

arranged marriage, 181, 191 Attwood, Thomas, 109 Augsburg, Mozart humiliated in, 112,

204 Austrian economy, 185, 232-3, 245,

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Bach, Johann Sebastian, 15, 177, 215, 217, 219, 223-4

Bach, Johann Christian, 217 Backhaus, Wilhelm, 88 Bar, Dr Carl, 43, 50, 52, 57-8, 62-5,

67, 71, 74, 75, 76, 81, 250, 268; Mozart's finances, 253, 255, 256

Baranius, Henriette, 123-4, 129 Barber of Seville, The, 202 Barisani, Sigmund, 69, 70, 72, 209 Baron von P., letter to, 162-3 Barraud, J., 68 Bassi, Luigi, 122, 154 Bastien und Bastienne, 187

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Beaumarchais, Pierre Caron de, 189, 202

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 50, 123 and n, 155, 187, 208, 222, 223, 246, 252, 255, 259; belief in poison story, 33; Mozart contrasted with, 164, 167; Mozart prepares way for, 218, 220; as rebel, 178

Belmonte, Carola, 119, 135 Belza, Igor, 34, 45 Berlin, Mozart's visit to, 15, 17,

100-1, 240, 255 Blom, Eric, 169 bloodletting, 60, 61, 66 Bliimml, Emil Karl, 136 Bondini, Caterina, 123 Born, Ignaz von, 192, 198 Boschot, Adolphe, 92, 114 Braunbehrens, Volkmar, 242, 243,

251, 253, 266 Breitkopf & Hartel, 14, 18, 103, 172 Brophy, Brigid, 173, 191 Bullinger, Abbe, 182 Bursy, Dr Carl von, 61, 66

Camus, Albert, 228-9 Cannabich, Christian, 152, 155 Carpani, Giuseppe, 43-4, 46, 58 Carr, Francis, 123n Chabot, Duchesse de, 182 clarinet concerto, K622, 208 Clementi, Muzio, 113 Clemenza di Tito, La, 4, 107, 135,

139, 149, 187, 189, 210, 213, 222, 224-7,236,242,247

Closset, Thomas Franz, 7, 46, 47, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 76

Colloredo, Hieronymus, Prince­Archbishop of Salzburg, 36, 47, 191; Mozart's quarrels with, 112-13, 180, 183-4

concerts, see academies conspiracy theory, 54-5 correspondence of Mozart family,

23-5, 56, 124-5, 239, 265, 269 Cosifan tutte, 135, 190-1,236,241-

2, 246, 251, 254 court society, 141, 181, 188, 205,

267 Cramer, Carl Friedrich, 20 Curzon, Henri de, 251 Czerny, Carl, 123n

daemonic genius, 157, 163, 165-8 Dalchow, Johannes, Duda, Gunter &

Kerner, Dieter, 38-43, 48-9, 51-3, DaPonte, Lorenzo, 5, 8, 41, 168,

189-91, 268 Daumer, G. F., 34-5, 36, 47, 48, 54 Davies, Dr Peter J., 71-5, 174-5 death mask, 8, 132, 135 Deiner, Joseph, 7, 62, 74, 77, 121,

134 deposit on the brain, 59, 65 and n Destouches, Franz Seraph von, 10 Deutsch, Otto Erich, 40, 42, 48, 52-

3, 53-4; see also documentary biography

Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von, 234-5 Documentary Biography (Deutsch

& Eisen), 28 Doles, Johann Friedrich, 113, 161 Don Giovanni, 108, 123, 129, 139,

163, 166-7, 168, 173, 242, 250, 251, 254; overture, 19, 22, 95-7, 106-7; presentiment of death in, 209, 216; social commentary in, 190

Dresden, 240, 254 dropsy, 57, 70 dualism, 142-3 Duda, Gunter, see Dalchow, Duda &

Kerner Duschek family, 13, 103, 123, 138,

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Edge, Dexter, 241n, 254 Ehrenwald, J., 173 Einstein, Alfred, 85, 93, 111, 114,

168-9 Elizabeth of Wiirttemberg, Princess,

244 England, 5, 188, 244, 246, 247, 251 enlightenment, 177, 188-9, 191-2,

199-200, 202 Entfiihrung aus dem Serail, Die, 14,

15, 123, 187, 233, 235; as progressive enlightenment opera, 188-9, 246

'Entfiihrung aus dem Auge Gottes, Die', 131

Esterh:izy, Prince Nikolaus, 199 Eybler, Joseph, 61, 64, 78

feminism, 191, 195 Feuerstein, J. H., 20 Figaro, Le nozze di, 107-8, 135, 167,

168, 241, 249-50; radicalism of, 39, 189-90, 191' 201-2, 246

Francis II, Emperor, 198 freemasonry, 24, 47-8, 49, 141-2,

191-201; class orientation, 198-201; English and Scottish rites, 199; gambling and gluttony among, 196; hostility to, 195-7; Joseph II's edict on, 195-8; masons as Mozart's murderers, 34-43, 48-53; in Vienna, 197-201

French cultural hegemony, 177, 186 French and German interpretations

of Mozart, 167-8 French revolution, 37, 48, 141, 196,

198, 206 Freudian interpretations, 173-5 Freystadtler, Franz Jakob, 78, 108 Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia,

17, 41, 100-103, 114, 185,210 Fuchs, Aloys, 26 funeral and burial, 7-9, 35, 38, 41-2,

49-51, 76-7, 132, 134, 151 Fiirsicht, zur, 36, 47

galant style, 179, 186, 217-18, 223, 234

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Galitzin, Prince, 183 Genast, Anton, 97, 107 genius, 144-176, 177, 179, 264;

childlike, 158; produced by sub­rational faculties, 158-9; romantic conceptions of, 16, 156-173, 175-6

genre, 187, 189, 190, 202-3 Gerl, Barbara, 121, 124 German nationalism, 142, 177, 186;

Mozart's, 36, 187-8, 267 Gesellschaft der Associirten

Cavaliers, 241, 246 Gheon, Henri, 92, 206, 269 Giesecke, Carl Ludwig, 37 Gluck, Christoph Willibald, 116, 179,

189, 215, 217 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 121,

208 Gottlieb, Anna, 121 and n Greither, Dr Aloys, 43, 52, 68-71, 72 Gretry, Andre Ernest Modeste, 170 Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior

von, 109, 251 Grosser, J. E., 20 Grotte, Die, 35, 37, 48 Guardasoni, Domenico, 224, 241 Gyrowetz, Adalbert, 96

Haibl, Sophie, 26, 264; on Mozart's character, 98, 101, 148, 154-6; Mozart's deathbed, 6, 9, 59-61, 64, 66, 70, 74, 77-8, 194

Haldane, Charlotte, 251 Handel, Georg Frideric, 171, 215,

217,219,224,241,246,252, 254-5

Hatzfeld, Count August, 209 Haydn,Joseph, 19,22, 155,177,186,

210,215,222,244, 252,255,259; Mozart's friendship with, 14, 111-12, 147, 206

Haydn, Michael, 106, 223-4 heart disease, 64-8, 71, 72-5 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,

158, 165, 213-15 Henoch-Schonlein syndrome, 71-5 Herzog, Anton, 49

280

Heuss, Alfred, 165 Hildesheimer, Wolfgang, 144-154,

161, 164, 166, 169, 221, 265, 269 Hippocratic theory of humours, 63,

65-6, 75 hitziges Frieselfieber (fever with

skin-rash), 57, 58, 59, 64, 67, 71, 73-4, 76

Hofdemel, Franz, 201, 255, 257 Hofdemel affair, 122-3 and notes Hoffmann, E. T. A., 163, 164 Hoffmeister, Franz Anton, 103 Holmes, Edward, 26, 86, 94, 163 Hormayr, J., 20 humanist style, 187, 222 Hummel, Johann Nepomuk, 89, 98,

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Jdomeneo, 21, 22, 23, 25, 108, 139, 234

Illuminati, 34, 36, 47, 192-3, 195-6, 20

infective endocarditis, 66-8, 74, 75, 76,268

Italian intrigues, 14, 31, 246, 249-50, 252, 267

Jacobi, Baron, 41 Jacobinism and Jacobin trials, 196-7 Jacquin family, 153 Jacquin, Gottfried von, 127, 250 Jahn, Otto, 26-7, 40, 46, 164, 168,

171, 219, 265, 268; on Constanze, 102; Hofdemel affair, 122-3 and notes; on Mozart's character weaknesses, 97-8, 108; on Mozart's philandering, 119-20, 124; on Rochlitz, 15-16

Jews, 35, 36-8, 48, 54, 55 Joseph II, Emperor, 36, 51, 107, 128,

188, 190, 233, 236; economic policies, 231-3; and masons, 195-8; Mozart's loyalty to, 100-101, 103,174, 184,202; support for Mozart, 245-6

Kapellmeister appointment, 244 Kelly, Michael, 87, 89, 99, 115, 128,

164, 234, 250, 264, 268

Kenner and Liebhaber, 173, 206 Kerner, Dieter, see Dalchow, Dud a &

Kerner kidney disease, 68-75, 77 Kierkegaard, Soren, 163, 164, 166 King, Alec Hyatt, 252 Koch, Richard, 47 Kraemer, Uwe, 105 Kreitmeier, Josef, 91

Lackenbacher, Heinrich, 258-9 Lange, Joseph, 131, 136, 154-6 Leipzig, Mozart's visit to, 15, 16, 95,

100, 113, 161 Leopold II, emperor, 35, 196, 197,

198, 236; coronation in Frankfurt, 149, 196, 240, 255; coronation in Prague, 149, 224, 241

Levey, Michael, 169 Lobes, Dr Guldener von, 43, 49, 58-

9, 65, 75-6 London, see England Loschenkohl, Hieronymus, 241 Losey, Joseph, 190 Ludendorff, Erich, 35, 54-5 Ludendorff, Mathilde, 35-8, 47-8, 49,

54 Lyser, Karl, 26, 46, 62, 64, 77, 96,

115, 121, 123, 194, 200

Mannheim, 112, 180 Maria Luisa, Empress, 224, 236 Maria Theresa, Empress, 116 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France,

37,48 Martiny Soler, Vicente, 251 Martini, Padre, 170, 217, 224 Masonic cantata Laut verkunde

unsre Freude, 6, 37, 40, 41, 51, 193, 197

masonic music, 187, 191-4,201,222 Mass inC minor, K427, 125, 193 Massin, Jean and Brigitte, 178-97,

206 Mazzola, Caterino, 226-7 Mendelssohn, Moses, 221 mercury, 39, 40, 41, 47, 53-4 Metastasio, Pietro, 226

Index

Mi:ilk, Albert von, 12 Moore, Julia, 253n, 256-7, 259 Morike, Eduard, 96, 114, 163, 164,

204, 241 Moscheles, 43, 46 Mozart, Carl Thomas, 10, 13;

supporter of poison theory, 32, 41, 49, 59, 70-1

Mozart, Constanze, 4-8, 68, 227; alleged affair with SiiBmayr, 128; alleged destruction of Mozart's letters, 24, 132; assessments of, 13, 139-40; attitude to poison story, 31-2; betrothal and marriage, 131, 136; business acumen of, 102-3, 137-8; calves measured, 127, 136; criticisms of Mozart, 21, 101-3, 140; deflowered by Mozart before marriage, 125; despairing letter to, 150, 152, 210, 221, 265; did not love her husband, 132; estate, 138; on his finances, 100-3, 246-7, 248-9; flirting, 132; forgives Mozart's philandering, 118-121; and funeral of Mozart, 38, 42, 132; illnesses, 231; incompetence as housewife, 132, 137-8; lack of culture, 132, 138-9; on last illness and death, 57, 59-60, 66, 70, 73, 74, 77-80; Mozart's assessment of, 133; Mozart's passion (or lack of passion) for, 126-8, 147, 148; on Requiem, 77-80, 197 [see also Requiem]; source of biographical information, 11, 12, 14, 17-18,41, 45, 46, 57, 59-60, 66, 87, 121, 139, 264; unsuitable wife, 12, 131-40, 152, 269; untruthfulness, 18, 22, 77-80, 102-3, 141, 197

Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang, 89, 102, 128, 139, 241

Mozart, Leopold, 11, 69-70, 173, 174-5, 215, 237, 239; character, 116-17; contributor to myth, 170, 266; correspondence, 23-4, 56, 239; critic of his own son, 94-5, 107-8, 109-10, 154-5; deceived by Mozart, 24; estate, 103; helps

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Mozart with early compositions, 170; last letter from his son, 147, 209, 220; and masonry, 36, 47-8; quarrels with his son, 114-15, 132, 146, 181, 191; social ambitions, 178-9, 204; visits son in Vienna, 103, 137, 239

Mozart, Maria Anna (Mozart's mother), 94

Mozart, Maria Anna ('Nannerl'), 57, 69, 93, 99, 108, 132, 158; postscript to her letter to Schlichtegroll, 12, 88, 90, 99, 133-4; reads Niemetschek, 12; reply to Schlichtegroll, 11-12

Mozart, Maria Anna Thekla (Mozart's cousin), 92-3, 125

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus appearance, 86-90, 106, 114; and aristocracy, 114-15, 202-5, 238, 241, 246; bohemianism, 142; burnt out, 207, 210, 212-13, 220-1, 225, 227, 269; carelessness with money, 15, 19, 96, 99-106; childhood illnesses, 56; childishness, 12, 90-5, 142, 163; clothes, 87, 243, 245, 256, 259; craftsmanship, 156, 170, 172-3, 175; creative exhaustion, 210, 212, 222-3, 225, 227; debts, 96, 99-106, 200-1, 230-1, 233, 247, 248-9, 257-9; dissipation and self­destruction, 95-9, 150, 163, 196, 268; domestic chaos, 12, 174; drunkard, 19, 26, 27, 95-9, 161, 174-5; eccentricity, 148-9, 154-6, 161, 166; flirtatiousness, 126; fragments and sketches, 171, 172, 223; freelancing, 242-8; gambling, 104-5; house moves, 245; impoverishment, 148, 242-3, 247-50, 259; income and expenditure, 105, 116, 185, 230-33, 242-3, 244-8, 252-7, 259; incompetence at human relationships, 109-16; indifference to popularity, 160, 166, 168; intimations of mortality, 209-10, 269; inventory of effects

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at death, 87, 242-3, 259; irregular working, 19, 269; knight of golden spur, 179; lack of general culture, 145, 160, 165; last sacraments, 194, 200; late style, 208, 222; left ear, 89-90; liking for low company, 21, 114; lusty nature, 126,174-5, 191; luxurious possessions, 243, 256, 259; manic­depressive tendencies, 174-5; always wearing a mask, 147, 165, 265; and masonry, 47-8, 55, 191-201; methods of composition, 14, 15, 108, 145, 151, 159, 170, 171-2; mocking of others, 15, 110-13; as Papageno, 131, 165; philanderer, 19, 26, 118-129; 'popular' and 'authentic' compositions, 168; productiveness, 207; professional unreliability, 106-9; publication of his works, 9-10; and religion, 35, 191, 193-4, 200; scatological humour, 23, 92-4, 145-6, 147, 155, 174-5, 191; semi-autism, 146-7, 148, 152, 173, 269; sharp tongue, 133, 147, 269; snobbery, 201, 204; social and political rebel, 167, 176, 269, see also indifference to popularity; social unease and assertiveness, 181-3, 204-6, 245; split personality, 85-6, 142, 158, 165-9; syphilis, 53-4;

.tactlessness, 146, 148; as teacher, 108-9; transfiguration, 208, 212-13, 218; unpopularity of his music, 233-7

Munich, 112, 180, 192 Myslivecek, Joseph, 111

naive genius, 157-8, 167 Naumann, Johann Gottlieb, 113, 185 neoclassicism, 187, 222, 226 Neukomm, Sigismund, 44 Neumayr, Professor Dr Anton, 63,65 Niemetschek, Franz, 11, 13-14, 15-

18, 86, 88, 106, 125, 151, 171, 230, 231, 233, 234, 241, 248; anti-

Viennese, 249; Bohemian nationalism, 249, 251; character of Mozart, 90-1, 95-6, 100, 110, 115, 120-1, 153; composition of La demenza di Tito, 4, 225-6; illness and death of Mozart, 5, 14, 57-8, 67, 73; indifference to popularity and to the great, 160, 205; Italian plots, 45, 46, 141; poison, 5, 31; Prague and Mozart, 4, 13, 16, 250; Requiem, 4-5, 14, 22, 58, 78-9, 212; romantic conception of genius, 16, 159-60, 170

Nietzsche, F. W., 165-6 Nissen, Georg Nikolaus, 20-3; 38, 49,

87-9, 107, 132, 134, 138, 139, 233, 254; on biographies of Mozart, 10-11, 14; censorship of Mozart's letters, 23; on last illness and death, 59-60, 64, 66, 73-4; method of writing, 20-3, 120, 171, 213; on Mozart's character, 98; Mozart's methods of composition, 21, 107, 151, 171; plagiarisms, 21-2,32,96,101,171,249

Novello, Vincent and Mary, 25-6, 32, 41, 45, 46, 60, 64, 70, 77, 94, 102, 115, 122, 134; assessment of Constanze Mozart, 139-40

number mysticism, 40, 52

opera buffa, 186, 189-90, 202-3 opera seria, 189-90, 202-3, 225, 226 Oulibicheff, Alexander, 214-16,219

Paisiello, Giovanni, 202, 227, 251 Paris, Mozart's trip to, 1777-8, 24,

112, 115, 180-2, 185, 265 patronage, changes in, 246-7 Paumgartner, Bernhard, 119, 165,

269 Pezzl, Johann, 256-7 piano concertos, 186, 239-40, 252;

K595, 208, 221 Pichler, Caroline, 94, 148-9, 154-6,

164 plagiarism, 11, 13, 14, 17, 19,20-2,

87, 88, 94-6, 120-1, 162, 171, 249

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Plath, Wolfgang, 28, 170, 268 poison, 5, 17, 22, 31-55, 57, 123n,

266,268 Prague, 4, 27, 200, 201; Mozart's

special relationship with, 185, 193, 250; public less sophisticated, 168; symphony, K504, 185, 203

Promethean genius, 157, 167 psychological stories, 144, 173-5,

191 publishing, income from, 255 Puchberg, Michael, 105, 147, 201,

233,240,246,247,248,257-9 Pushkin, Alexander, 33, 45

Rasumovsky, Count Andrei, 252 Rau, Heribert, 96, 114, 129, 205 Renaissance artists, 106, 155 Requiem, 3-8, 14, 22-3 and n, 68, 70,

77, 149, 172, 208; commissioned by masons, 37, 41, 48, 51; fee for, 4, 8, 80; legend of, 79-80, 197; Mozart's own death-mass, 5, 6, 32, 58, 80, 212-13, 216; rehearsal on last afternoon, 6, 9, 60, 78, 150; Siillmayr's completion of, 6, 8, 60-2

rheumatic fever, 63-8, 71, 75-6, 77, 81, 268

Rimsky-Korsakoff, 34 Robbins Landon, H. C., 224n, 242,

251, 253, 255 Rochlitz, Friedrich, 14-19,41,46, 77,

113,224-5,236,241, 264; character of Mozart, 95-6, 100-101, 107, 110, 115, 142, 161-2; commissioning of the Requiem, 3-4, 58, 79-80; exhaustion and transfiguration, 212-13; fee for the Requiem, 4; !domeneo, 21; illness in 1791, 4, 57-8, 67, 70, 73; indifference to popularity and to the great, 161, 205; Mozart's methods of composition, 15, 106, 151, 161, 171; romantic account of genius, 161-2

romanticism, 54, 129, 175 Rosicrucianism, 40, 41, 49

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St Stephen's cathedral, 200 Salieri, Antonio, 149, 224, 251, 259;

poisoner of Mozart, 33-4, 43-5; rivalry with Mozart, 45-6, 55, 246

Sallaba, Dr Mathias von, 46, 57, 62, 63, 66, 71, 76

Salzburg, 191-2; discontent of the Mozarts in, 179-80

Schachtner, Johann Andreas, 11, 90, 158, 205

Schack, Benedikt, 78 Schefer, L., 122-3 and notes Schiedermair, Ludwig, 129, 250 Schikaneder, Emanuel, 37, 98, 100-

101, 174-5, 201, 255; his debauches with Mozart, 19, 97-8, 114, 150

Schlichtegroll, Friedrich, 11-13, 161, 162, 168, 212; on Mozart's character weaknesses, 86, 88, 90, 94-5, 100, 106, 134, 158-9, 249; on Mozart's refusal to defer to the nobility, 205; on Mozart as romantic genius, 158-9

Schlosser, J. A., 20 Schobert, Johann, 217 Schubert, Franz, 155 Schurig, Arthur, 85, 87, 105, 114,

119, 125, 135-6, 165-6, 168, 250; Nietzschean view of Mozart, 129, 166

Schwemmer, Liserl, 137 sentimentalism, 187 servants, 131, 136, 137 seduction of, see Stiibenmadeleien Seyfried, Ignaz von, 61, 70 Shaffer, Peter, 34, 45 Singspiel, 187, 202, 220 Sitwell, Sacheverell, 129, 169, 202 skull, Mozart's, 38, 42 Stadler, Anton, 21, 35, 37, 48, 101,

114, 174 Stadler, Maximilian, Abbe, 49, 68,

115 status of musicians and artists, 177 Stendhal, [Beyle, M.-H.], 20, 87, 106,

122, 154; on genius, 163 Stock, Doris, 94

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Stoll, Dr Maximilian, 63, 65n, 66, 75 Storace, Nancy, 124, 147 Streicher, Johann Andreas, 134, 139 string quartets: 'Haydn', 223, 236;

'Prussian', 210, 222-3 string quintet K614, 210, 223 Stiibenmadeleien, 118-9 Sturm und Drang, 186-7, 222 Suard, J.-B.-A., 53, 91, 95, 121 SiiBmayr, Franz Xaver, 114, 128;

completion of Requiem, 6, 8, 60-2, 77-9

Swieten, Gottfried, Baron van, 37, 41-2, 49, 94, 163, 192-3, 196, 218; Mozart's funeral and burial, 7-8, 37, Mozart's patron, 240, 241, 246, 255

symphonies, last three, 238, 240

tearful partings, 152-3, 210 theodicy, 207-227, 228 Thorwart, Johann von, 131 Tieck, Ludwig, 88 Tippett, Michael, 171 Tonkiinstler-Sozietat, 103, 240, 246,

248 Trattner family, 241 Trattner, Therese von, 124-5 Tyson, Alan, 28, 172, 200, 203, 221,

222, 223, 224n, 268

Vienna, 243-5, 247; aristocracy of, and Mozart, 198-9,238, 241, 246; freemasonry in, 198-9; neglect of Mozart, 249-51, 252

Vitellia's rondo 'Non piu di fiori', 226 Vogler, Georg Joseph, 112 Voltaire, 111

Wagner, Richard, 219, 220 Waisenhaus Mass, K139, 162 Waldstatten, Baroness von, 87, 126,

131 Walsegg-Stuppach, Count Franz, 8,

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Weber, Aloysia, 112, 130, 131, 133, 136, 140, 180-1

Weber family, 112, 130-1, 133, 136-7, 152

Weber, Fridolin, 130, 136, 180 Weber, Maria Cacilia, 130-1, 136-7,

174-5 Wendling family, 180-1 Winckler, T. F., 20 Wyzewa, Theodor de and Saint-Foix,

Georges de, 91, 105, 168, 216-20

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Zauberflote, Die, 35, 37, 39, 40, 48-9, 51, 53, 55, 98, 121, 149, 167, 173, 187,208,210,218,219, 222; composed in summerhouse, 107, 121; Mozart follows on deathbed, 61, 70; payment for, 100-101, 255; radical enlightenment opera, 191-7, 201; reflects Mozart's split personality, 85; success of, 6, 221, 247

Zinzendorf, Count, 190

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