VALENTINA SANDU-DEDIU
Moz-art and Amadeus, Compositions and Fictions, Dissonance in Interpretation
Abstract
Mozart's music continues to appeal to all ages and tastes, and continues to be an inexhaustible source for avant-garde composers just as much as it is for children's concerts. Like no other composer, Mozart seems to please everyone: music lovers who seek relaxation listening to classical music, specialists who have not exhausted their work dissecting the generative mechanisms of Mozart's works, performers of all kinds and ages – conductors, instrumentalists, and singers, and today's composers who can still discover creative impulses coming from Mozart's themes and ideas. This essay offers an overview of aspects of the reception of Mozart in recent decades, from Paul Johnson's book to Miloš Forman's film, via the postmodernism of Mozart in Egypt, Gilles Apap's interpretation and Alfred Schnittke's scores.
Keywords:
the “Mozart effect”, Paul Johnson, Alfred Schnittke, Gilles Apap, Mozart in Egypt, history of musical performance, Miloš Forman