2009
DOI: 10.1017/s1478570609990108
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GÜNTHER G. BAUER, TRANSLATED BY RAY FLANAGAN MOZART: A GREAT LOVER OF GAMESBad Honnef: Karl Heinrich Bock, 2006 pp. 391, isbn978 3 87066 972 0

Abstract: A carnivalesque impulse repeatedly finds expression in Mozart's life and works. Various documents, most of them directly accessible to study, bear witness to his remarkable capacity for inventing personal entertainments. Foremost among these are the Bäsle-Briefe, with their rhetorical trick-work, his facetious entries in Nannerl's Tagebuch, accounts of practical jokes played on friends, and, as one might expect, a number of jests attached to a musical context, including the 'obscene' canons, the pantomime with… Show more

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