
Mozart in Motion
His Work and His World in Pieces
by Patrick Mackie
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Pub Date Jun 06 2023 | Archive Date Jul 31 2023
Description
In exhilarating, transformative prose, the poet Patrick Mackie reveals a musician in dialogue with culture at its most sweepingly progressive.
Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand about his music, and what can it reveal to us about the great composer?
Following Mozart from his youth in Salzburg to his early death, from his close and rivalrous relationship with his father to his romantic attachments, from his hugely successful operas to intimate compositions on the keyboard, Patrick Mackie leads the reader through the major and lesser-known moments of the composer’s life and brings alive the teeming, swiveling modernity of eighteenth-century Europe. In this era of rococo painting, surrealist aesthetics, and political turbulence, Mozart reckoned with a searing talent that threatened to overwhelm him, all the while pushing himself to extraordinary feats of musicianship.
In Mozart in Motion, we are returned to the volatility of the eighteenth century and hear Mozart’s music in all its audacious vividness, gaining fresh perspectives on why his works still move us so intensely today as we continue to search for a modernity he imagined into being.
A Note From the Publisher
Patrick Mackie is a poet whose work has appeared in The White Review, New Statesman, and The Paris Review. A former visiting fellow at Harvard, he is the author of Excerpts from the Memoirs of a Fool.
Advance Praise
“Mackie’s prose gathers momentum by tackling the music’s rich contradictions . . . If Mackie’s voice flirts with pretense, a close reading reveals keen ears and a lively imagination, especially for opera fans . . . Mackie challenges received ideas and offers descriptions that may yet prove worthy of his subject.” —Tim Riley, Truthdig
“In an intriguing blend of biography and deft musical analysis, poet Mackie creates a gallery of the composer’s masterpieces expertly framed in the cultural setting of eighteenth-century Europe . . . After perusing the pages of this thoughtful and beautifully written book, readers will want to discover, or rediscover, the timeless music of this beloved composer.” —Carolyn Mulac, Booklist
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9780374606206 |
PRICE | $30.00 (USD) |
PAGES | 368 |