'The New Grove Mozart'
'The New Grove Mozart,' by Cliff Eisen and Stanley Sadie (Palgrave, 2002, $12.95)
The conductor Otto Klemperer, when asked who his favorite composers were, listed a handful of the great masters, but purportedly excluded Mozart. When questioned to this point, he replied, "Oh, I thought you meant the others." Mozart's place in history is firmly established, and The New Grove Mozart outlines the reasons why this Viennese musician and music writer is now considered the most universal composer in the history of Western music. The book's text is broken up into two major sections. The first half covers Mozart's ancestry and early childhood and then goes on to catalog his travels, compositions (both early works and products of his late years), and his death. The second half of the book is a comprehensive list of Mozart's works set up in much the same style as The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Each listing is set in a table, sorted by musical genre, including number, key, title, instrument(s) used, the date of composition, authentication, edition, and remarks from the authors.
ISBN 0-312-23325-6
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