Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past

For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and scholars of Mozart's music have taken a rejection of transcendence as axiomatic. Edmund Goehring's Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past offers an alternative vision of Mozart's works and of Western art music generally: such works as Mozart's radiate an idealism that has human sociability both as its source and its object. This fascinating new book-length essay is addressed to any reader interested in the performing arts, visual arts, and literature and their relationship to the broader culture.