Mozart The Fall of the Gods - Part 1

by Luca Bianchini, Anna Trombetta

Overview

The English translation is finally available! Mozart The Fall of the Gods is an editorial success that has revolutionized the way of thinking about Mozart. A bestseller in Italy, the subject of study at university, this book was adopted in the courses of Music Conservatories and it was the topic of discussion for 24 episodes on Vatican Radio. It collects the results of the various research on 18th-century music and Mozart, revered as a god for over two centuries. The authors asked themselves the reasons for that cult, and they removed the many clichés from biographies, such as the one of the genius of nature. Until the last century, the trend was to minimize problems, so as not to disturb the image impressed on the public's mind. This work, divided into two parts, identifies some contradictory points of the immense Mozartian bibliography, verifies and analyses them. It reports the sources of each of the almost 2000 citations, to allow the reader to verify them. Mozart The Fall of the Gods is a Copernican revolution that has upset the musical world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666231434
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/01/2021
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

LUCA BIANCHINI and ANNA TROMBETTA are musicians and musicologists who graduated with honours in musicology from the School of Palaeography and Musical Philology in Cremona. For many years, they have been revising the musical works by Cimarosa, Paisiello, Pacini, Mascagni, Zingarelli, Donizetti, Vivaldi, Mayr, Bruni and Jommelli. They discovered Johann Simon Mayr’s first Werther in opera form, performed in Germany at the Rossini Festival in Wildbad. They have been collaborating with record companies and music industries; they published Mozart, La costruzione di un genio, 2019; Mozart Il flauto magico, 2018; Mozart, La caduta degli dei–Parte prima, 2016; Mozart, La caduta degli dei–Parte seconda, 2017; Mozart, L’aria della Contessa, 2008; Teresina Tua, L’angelo del violino; Goethe, Mozart e Mayr fratelli illuminati, 2001 for Arché. They edited the Toberne by Bruni for LIM, published biographies, essays, articles, hundreds of piano music and orchestral scores. From 2016 to 2019, they recorded two cycles of twenty-four episodes for the Vatican Radio in the broadcast “L’Arpeggio” by Luigi Picardi. They lectured and wrote articles as well as CD liner notes. On the 26th of October 2016, they were invited to Rome to the Hall of the Parliamentary groups in the Chamber of Deputies as speakers to present their books and the discovery of new musical documentation. In 2017, they held a lecture on Mozart, The Fall of the Gods at the Michelangelo Abbado Civic School of Music in Milan. They were invited to Cremona Musica 2018, the world’s number one fair trade centre for musical instruments, and spoke about their book Mozart, The Fall of the Gods. In Venice, they talked about their research at the Casanova Lounge of the prestigious Venier Palace. In Sassari, they inaugurated the 2019 musical season of the Melos Festival.

Editorial Reviews

In the historiography of Western Classical music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is commonly considered an exceptional and singular musical genius. This glowing assessment is partially based on countless myths and legends that have, for a variety of reasons, resisted critical and scholarly scrutiny. In a number of recent publications, musicologists Luca Bianchini and Anna Trombetta have set themselves the task of separating fact from fiction.

Interlude, Hong Kong, https://interlude.hk/luca-bianchini-anna-trombetta-fall-gods-engaging-mozart-myth/ - Georg Predota

'A Music History Must-Have! I had an opportunity to read this book and I was utterly amazed at the care taken to provide extensive bibliography of all the sources cited. The claims made about Mozart in this scholarly work reflect not solely the opinions of the authors, but rather the conclusions clearly drawn from historical data.'

Amazon. Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2021

Surprises abound, but every statement, even the most unexpected, appears accompanied by notes on the sources. The result is an almost total knowledge of non-fiction on the subject, read in the various original languages. Mozart's biography has always had the appearance of a fairy tale, and this book is the farthest from the legendary and hagiographic that has ever been written'.

www.italianopera.org - Marcello Piras