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The Norms of Taste and the Music of Mozart

The Norms of Taste and the Music of Mozart

Walker, Katherine

Hardcover

Classical MusicGeneral World HistoryMusic Reference

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 20, 2026

ISBN10: 1032974729
ISBN13: 9781032974729
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 152
Language: English

The Norms of Taste and the Music of Mozart uncovers what contemporaries meant when they praised composers like Mozart for their good taste and, in the process, illustrates how judgments of taste were intertwined with developments in the social, cultural, and political arenas.

Taking as its starting point Haydn's purported reference to Mozart Geschmack und Compositionwissenschaft, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the shifting connotations of taste in eighteenth-century European music. It bridges a gap in music scholarship by new perspectives on how music, philosophy, literature, and politics intersected through the language of taste. The discourse of musical taste opened pathways from the individual to the collective and framed pressing debates about the sources and meanings of human flourishing. As the author argues, the century of taste denotes a period in which art and aesthetics were bound up with moral philosophy; when artistic, ethical, and social aspects of life merged and overlapped, bringing good taste and goodness into alignment.

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