Osmin's Rage

In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical--as opposed to a dramatic--necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.

Author: Peter Kivy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 03/30/1999
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.93w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780801485893

About the Author

Peter Kivy is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and the author of Music Alone; Authenticities; and Sound and Semblance, all from Cornell.