Mozart's Compositional Method

Mozart's Compositional Method

The question of how Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart created his works has long been studied. Nineteenth century views on this topic were often based on a romantic, mythologizing conception of the process of composition. More recent scholarship addresses this issue through systematic examination of authenticated letters and documents, and has arrived at rather different conclusions.

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