Comments on: Mozartmania

Mozartmania

ubiquity — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:21:23 -0800

(including 8000 pages of critical commentary) of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a gift by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum on the occasion of his 250th birthday. (German links are also available).

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:43:11 -0800

Results 1 - 10 of about 10,500,000 for quarter note.

By: Schmucko

Schmucko — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:08:31 -0800

Do I understand correctly that the critical commentary is mostly at the level of correcting the text and not, for example, "this movement's modulation to this remote key was an advance over other concertos"?

By: imposster

imposster — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:56:49 -0800

Great find. The critical commentary is in German - but might be useful for research. Once you select a piece of music to view, several tabs appear in the top left corner. "Synopsis" will show the commentary side by side with the score. The kicker - almost everything (including the scores) is available as .pdfs. Click the "Table of contents" page. The TOC will provide links to generating the pdfs. A little slow on the uptake, but pretty amazing. Browsing by key or "category" is provides some interesting leads - but you can't search for B major for some reason.

By: moss

moss — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:18:24 -0800

Wow. ...wow. I don't really have anything substantive to say, but this is pretty damned cool.

By: majick

majick — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:40:52 -0800

Alas, it largely seems to be giving 404 errors for much of the material.

By: ubiquity

ubiquity — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:00:25 -0800

Apparently ISM seriously underestimated how much traffic they would get. Hopefully they will either get more servers, or put all of Beethoven's stuff up at some other site to balance the workload. ;-)

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:48:55 -0800

I have yet to receive a single page of PDF. [This might be good]

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:53:30 -0800

A year ago, by the way, was the 50th anniversary of George Enescu's death. It went by scarcely noticed by the world at large, though if you trim the fat from the two men's ouevres, you end up with a very comparable balance.