The Music of Mozart I

Jay Rosenblatt
MONDAYS 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
November 2 - 30, 2015. No class on November 23, 2015.
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The Music of Mozart I

Fall 2015
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MONDAYS
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
November 2 - 30, 2015. No class on November 23, 2015.

Location: 

Main Campus

Tuition: 

$85.00

Few composers have been as prolific in so many genres as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In this course we will survey a portion of this vast output from the unique perspective of specialists in the field, all professors at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music. The first session will be led by Jay Rosenblatt and will offer an overview of Mozart’s life, covering such topics as his years as a child prodigy, his difficulties with the prince-archbishop of Salzburg, and his final decade in Vienna. He will also introduce the class to the stylistic characteristics of Mozart’s music. For the subsequent sessions, Kristin Dauphinais, Professor of Voice, will discuss the three operas Mozart wrote with Lorenzo da Ponte; Bruce Chamberlain, Director of Choral Activities, will examine Mozart’s sacred music; and Tannis Gibson, Professor of Piano, will introduce us to Mozart’s piano concertos and works for solo piano.

Required Reading: 

Cowdery, William and Neal Zaslaw. The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. W.W. Norton, 1990. ISBN: 0-393-02886-0.

Recommended Reading: 

Solomon, Maynard. Mozart: A Life. Harper, 2005. ISBN: 0-060-88344-8.  

Meet Your Professor

Associate Professor
School of Music

JAY ROSENBLATT earned his B.A. in Piano Performance and M.A. in Musicology from UCLA and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, also in Musicology. He joined the School of Music at the University of Arizona in 1995. For the past twenty-eight years, he has taught survey courses (Classical and Romantic music), courses on opera, and seminars on individual composers such as Liszt and Mozart. Since 2012, he has taught eight courses in the Humanities Seminars.

Location

Poetry Center
Dorothy Rubel Room
1508 E Helen
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States
Located on the SE corner of Helen Street and Vine Avenue, one block north of Speedway and three blocks west of Campbell Ave.

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