The Mozarts, Who They Were (Volume 1). Diego Minoia

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      The Mozarts, Who They Were

      TRANSLATED BY DENA MARZULLO

      Diego Minoia

      The Mozarts, Who They Were

      A Family on the Quest of a European Triumph

       Travels, music, encounters and interesting facts

      The historical-sociological conditions, the family,

      the childhood and the adolescence of Wolfgang Amadeus

      Volume I

      (1747 - 1763)

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      Diego Minoia

      The Mozarts, Who They Were

      A Family on the Quest of a European Triumph

      Travels, music, encounters and interesting facts

      Table of Contents

      Volume I

      Part 1: Salzburg and the Mozart family

      Salzburg - The Prince-Bishops -- Interesting facts on Salzburg -- Music at the Court of the Prince-Bishopric -- The musicians of the Salzburg Court -- The Mozart family (mother, sister, father, Wolfgang) -- Wolfgang's station in the history of music -- The life of the Mozart family in Salzburg -- Mozart's earnings -- The catalogue of the Mozartian compositions

      Part 2: School of thought, culture and society in the 1700s

      The geopolitical situation during the 18^th century -- The Age of Enlightenment -- Society during the Mozart epoch -- Theater, influence and society -- Theater and the impresario -- The dedications and the earnings of composers and librettists -- The castrated -- Protected, borrowed and stolen musicians -- Music of the 1700s -- The role of the musician during the second half of the 1700s -- The Melodramma -- Music and the church -- The principle forms of church music - The evolution and perfection of musical instruments during the 1700s -- Pre-Romantic Mozart?

      Part 3: Daily life during Mozart's time

      The household in Europe in the 1700s -- Pannier or farthingale -- Laundry -- Ice -- Food and the evolution of taste -- Artists and their role in society - Various habits and interesting facts: household pets, high fashion à la Française -- Paris, the guiding light of fashion -- Gossip and aristocratic parlors -- The "dark gloom" - Parisian parlors and sex - Conservatories and hospitals for the poor

      Part 4: The Mozarts family before the European travels

      From 1775 to 1762: Leopold Mozart and the education of prodigious children -- The Mozartian epistolary -- The letters dating 1755/1756 -- Leopold Mozart: part author, part businessman -- Augsburg letters to the publisher Lotter -- The production of paper until the 1700s -- Leopold's astuteness -- The Fair -- Publishing in the 1700s and the author's rights -- Leopold's "ploy" - Taxes in the 18^th century -- Nannerl and Wolfgang's musical education in Salzburg -- Wolfgang's first compositions

      Part 5: The first journeys of the Mozart family

      Traveling in the 18^th century: roads, guides, lodging, dangers -- Some history on the postal service until Mozart's epoch -- The first journeys: Munich and Vienna -- The first journey to Vienna - Vienna, the capital of the Empire -- Interesting facts -- Epistolary from Vienna -- Dress during the 18^th century -- The Academies -- Music at the Court of Vienna -- Business and the diversification of consumerism -- Interior décor -- What did Wolfgang and Nannerl do during their exhibitions? -- The phenomenon of the 18^th century's child prodigies

      Part 6: The Mozarts and the Grand European Tour/1 -- Germany and the Netherlands

      What was the Grand Tour of the 18^th century? - The Mozart's Grand Tour "in reverse" - Appointments in every city - Sojourns along the journey: Salzburg, Munich, Augsburg, Ulm, Ludwigsburg, Bruchsal, Schwetzingen, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Worms, Mainz, Frankfurt, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne, Aachen, Liège, Tienen, Leuven, Brussels, Mons, Bonavis, Gourney, Paris

      Volume II

      Part 7: The Mozart family and the Grand European Tour/2

      Paris: encounters, hopes, gifts, success, interesting facts. Wolfgang's Parisian compositions

      Part 8: The Mozart family and the Grand European Tour/3 -- London

      London: a "new" world, formative musical encounters, marketing strategies and government crisis. Wolfgang's "Londonese" compositions

      Part 9: The Mozart family and the Grand European Tour/4 -- The long return trip

      Calais, Dunkirk, Lille, Ghent, Antwerp, Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, The Hague, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Antwerp, Brussels, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Paris, Dijon, Lyon, Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Zürich, Winterthur, Schaffhausen, Donaueschingen, Dillingen, Augsburg, Munich, Salzburg

      Part 10: Salzburg / Vienna / Salzburg

      The return to daily life in Salzburg -- A period of settling in and growth for Wolfgang in acquiring further musical knowledge -- A second journey to Vienna -- A period of additional Salzburg study in preparation for the upcoming journey to Italy

      Intermezzo

      The Grand Tour in Italy in the 18^th century, the opinions and diaries of other travelers on the Grand Tour, Europe and Italy during the second half of the 18^th century

      Part 11: The first journey to Italy

      Salzburg, Innsbruck, Bolzano, Rovereto, Verona, Mantua, Milan, Lodi, Parma, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Sessa Aurunca, Capua, Naples, Rome, Civita Castellana, Terni, Spoleto, Foligno, Loreto, Senigallia, Pesaro, Rimini, Imola, Bologna, Parma, Piacenza, Milan, Turin, Milan, Brescia, Verona, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Rovereto, Brixen, Innsbruck, Salzburg

      Part 12: The second journey to Italy

      In Milan for the composition of the theatrical serenade Ascanio in Alba -- Back to Salzburg

      Part 13: The third journey to Italy

      In Milan for the composition of the opera Lucio Silla -- Wolfgang returns to Salzburg to serve the Court

      Part 14: Vienna and Munich

      Unsuccessful attempts in Vienna -- La finta giardiniera "The Disguised Gardener" in Munich -- Wolfgang's melancholic return to Salzburg -- Mozart is dismissed -- Leopold and Wolfgang's separation -- Wolfgang's departure with his mother in search of fortune elsewhere

      A note to the reader: throughout the book, some parts of the text have been highlighted in gray. These have been included to give further information and in-depth explanation to broaden the understanding of the topic being discussed. There is no harm in passing over these segments to avoid interrupting the narrative related to the Mozart family; you may wish to re-read them later at your leisure. I hope you enjoy these brief "parenthesis" as a contribution to each situation that has been described in its historical and social context.

      Introduction

      Why this book? Because it has never been written! For years, I had been looking for a book about the Mozart family with these characteristics. Having never found one, as an author of several books, I decided to write it. There are dozens of books published on Mozart; some are biographies of Amadeus, others are detailed and technical musical analysis' of his compositions,