Mozart in Motion
His Work and His World in Pieces
by Patrick Mackie
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Pub Date 2 Sep 2021 | Archive Date 5 Oct 2021
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Description
The music and life of one of modernity's most prevalent figures through the compositions that shaped him, from a dazzling new writer of non-fiction.
Mozart holds a central, unwavering place in our culture, and his works are widely loved and listened to, often as much-loved favourites, or as background music. But how much do we really hear and understand the music that is played, and what can it reveal to us of the great composer?
Mozart in Motion is a unique biography of Mozart's music, a journey through the pieces of his canon which leads us to the pleasures of the works and an understanding of why they move us so intensely, as well as into the major and lesser known moments of Mozart's life. One reason Mozart's works have remained so ubiquitous, Mackie argues, is that he was composing at precisely the moment when our modern world was forming, and his priorities, explorations and emphases speak to our contemporary world.
In exhilarating, fresh and transformative prose, Patrick Mackie takes us inside the vital experience of listening to Mozart's music to uncover new perspectives on Mozart's world and the ways that we live now.
Advance Praise
‘This book is like a set of virtuoso cadenzas on themes from Mozart’s life and works: improvisatory, thought-provoking, quirky and constantly inventive’ Stephen Hough
‘An exhilarating and stimulating new survey of one of our civilization's greatest creative figures. Mackie sheds new light on both Mozart's music and his motivation, with an often piercingly original sideways glance - typically, Mackie ends his molto allegro romp through the works not with Mozart's famous unfinished Requiem but with a tiny keyboard Gigue that sums up his genius’ Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director, Barbican Centre and author of Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart
‘Written with the kind of energy and inventiveness of its subject, Mozart in Motion brings Mozart and his milieu into focus in a startling and original way. At once vividly evocative and dazzlingly informative and informed, this book changes the way we think about how art works, and how writing about art should work’ Adam Phillips
‘A dazzling celebration and recalibration of Mozart's genius, written with an energy to match its subject’ Ian Bostridge
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781783785995 |
| PRICE | £20.00 (GBP) |
