Melodies of the Mind: Mozart in 1778
2007; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 64; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/aim.2007.0016
ISSN1085-7931
Autores Tópico(s)Neuroscience and Music Perception
ResumoAlthough much has been written about Mozart's relationship with his father Leopold, this paper focuses on his relationship with his mother, Anna Maria. While on a journey with Mozart to Paris in 1778, Anna Marie became ill and died on July 3. Mozart's Piano Sonata in A Minor, K. 310, composed that summer, is invoked to illustrate how his mental life is represented in his music. Conceptualizing music itself as a point of entry into affective processes, the paper suggests that the formal properties of Mozart's A Minor Piano Sonata open for the listener an aural road to the unconscious on which music and psychoanalysis inform one another.
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