Wolfgang Antesberger
Vergessen Sie Mozart!: Erfolgskomponisten der Mozart-Zeit.
Munich: Piper Verlag, 2005. Author-signed first edition. 9783492047821 380 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is bound in red cloth, with gilt-lettered black spine label. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
Signed "Munchen, Januar 2006 / W. Antesberger" on blank page opposite title page.
""In their time they were famous and in some cases more successful than their contemporary Mozart. Wolfgang Antesberger brings ten composers out of obscurity and thus corrects the image of Mozart's time. 2006 is the year of Mozart. Music lovers will think of him above all. But Mozart and his time can only be understood by those who know the many other composers of that era. They wrote very good music and are unfairly forgotten today. That's why Wolfgang Antesberger talks about ten of Mozart's contemporaries who were great masters themselves: Hasse, Johann Christian Bach, Joseph Martin Kraus, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Joseph Leopold Eybler and others do not have to hide from Mozart, some of them were more successful as composers than he was at the time. From their fates and stories, from their experiences on their travels throughout Europe, a different, more striking picture of Mozart's time is created. This also changes our view of Mozart himself, whose 250th birthday will be celebrated on January 27, 2006."