Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music

ISBN-13: 9780330418584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str.

Jane Glover

Opis

A major new biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told through the prism of the women in his life

Recenzje

'unusual and original...readable, informative and moving...Glover uses her own experience as a conductor of Mozart's operas to give lucid and pertinent insights into the music...Glover's final chapter 'After Mozart' is the most rewarding and poignant in the book...Constanze emerges as a devoted wife, mother and lifelong promoter of Mozart. Glover neatly and satisfyingly ties up the loose ends in the story of the genius whose most astonishing musical miracles were achieved in his all-too-brief adulthood. Her passion for the music shines through this touching, vividly told story' Hugh Canning, Sunday Times

'Jane Glover has pulled off a coup des livres with her fresh take on Mozart's life and work. Glover's approach to her subject, through the women who played such a major role in Mozart's life, seems so obvious that it is a wonder nobody thought of it before...a compelling read that wears its scholarship lightly...Many conductors are good at talking about music, yet Glover belongs to that select band of conductor-scholars who have practical experience of the music they are writing about. As such, she offers insights into Mozart's work that ought to be required reading for practitioners and will equally enlighten the most casual listener' John Allison, Sunday Telegraph

O autorze

Glover, Jane

Dr. Jane Glover is one of the world's most eminent conductors, and remains one of the few females in her profession.

She was Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981-85, Artistic Director of the London Mozart Players from 1984-91, and has held Principal Conductorships of the Huddersfield and London Choral Societies.

Jane Glover has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain and is constantly in demand throughout the world. Highlights of her career to date include the South Bank series "Mozart Explored" and her 1995 performances of Britten's War Requiem at the BBC Proms and in Normandy.

In opera, Jane Glover has conducted productions at Glyndebourne, the English National Opera, New York City Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Opera Australia, Teatro La Fenice, Venice and Chicago Opera Theater, to name only a few.

Her many recordings feature a series of Mozart and Haydn symphonies for ASV with the London Mozart Players and recordings of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, Britten and Walton with the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic and the BBC Singers. Her extensive broadcasting career includes the TV series Orchestra and Mozart, and the radio series Opera House and Musical Dynasties, all for the BBC.

Jane Glover studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and did a PhD in 17th Century Venetian opera. She was created a CBE in the 2003 New Year's Honours. Jane lives in London.