Volume 38, Number 21 · December 19, 1991
Radical, Conventional Mozart
By Charles Rosen
Mozart Speaks: Views on Music, Musicians, and the World
selected and with a commentary by Robert L. Marshall
Schirmer, 446 pp., $35.00
Autonomy and Mercy: Reflections on Mozart's Operas
by Ivan Nagel, translated by Marion Faber, by Ivan Nagel
Harvard University Press, 149 pp., $24.95
Mozart's Operas
by Daniel Heartz
University of California Press, 363 pp., $37.50
A few years before Mozart's death in 1791, the emperor of Austria, Franz-Joseph, received the visit of a distinguished but uninteresting composer, Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, and asked him what he thought of Mozart's compositions. In his Recollections, Dittersdorf reported the conversation:
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