Archives: Newsletters

Fall 2025 (Vol. 29, No. 2)
  • John Matthew Cowan, “New Perspectives on the Clementi-Zauberflöte Controversy”
  • Martin Nedbal, Mozart’s Operas and National Politics: Canon Formation in Prague from 1791 to the Present, reviewed by Kathryn Libin
  • Jessica Waldoff, ed., The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute, reviewed by John A. Rice
  • Neal Zaslaw, Ulrich Leisinger, Miriam Pfadt, and Ioana Geanta, Thematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke von Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, reviewed by Daniel R. Melamed
  • “Così fan tutte le macchine”: Mozart Comes to Motor City, reviewed by Edmund J. Goehring
Spring 2025 (Vol. 29, No. 1)
  • “The Ganz kleine Nachtmusik: A Serenade in C for 2 Violins and Basso, KV2024 648,” by Neal Zaslaw
  • “Mozart and Dvořák,” by David R. Beveridge
  • “W. A. Mozart’s Opera Buffa Fragments: Then and Now,” Uppsala University, September 2–7, 2024, conference report by Mateusz Kawa
  • Mozart: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Debut, Concertgebouw Orchestra, reviewed by Samuel Breene
  • Mozart: String Duos, Catherine Cosbey (violin), Dorian Komanoff Bandy (violin and viola), reviewed by Edward Klorman
Fall 2024 (Vol. 28, No. 2)
  • “Why Should We Care about Eighteenth-Century Opera?,” by Michael Goetjen
  • The Art of Transformation: Variations and Fantasias by C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, and Mozart, Elizaveta Miller, fortepiano, Quartz Music Ltd QTZ2153, 2024. Reviewed by Dorian Bandy
  • Dorian Bandy, Mozart the Performer: Variations on the Showman’s Art. Reviewed by Jessica Waldoff
  • Dorothea Link, The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart’s Vienna. Reviewed by Ian Woodfield
Spring 2024 (Vol. 28, No. 1)
  • “Mozartwoche 2024: Mozart, Salieri, et al. in Salzburg,” by Bruce Alan Brown
  • “The Salzburg Idea, or Musical Diplomacy and Mozart among the Moderns,” by Matthew Werley
  • Simon Keefe, Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth Century: Parallel and Intersecting Patterns of Reception. Reviewed by Mark Everist
  • Patrick Mackie, Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces. Reviewed by Bruce Alan Brown
Fall 2023 (Vol. 27, No. 2)
  • Report on the Mozart Papers Presented at the 2023 ASECS in St. Louis, by Pierpaolo Polzonetti
  • “Mozart’s Jewish Librettist: A Brief History of a Poorly Kept Secret,” by Robert L. Marshall
  • Review: Mozart: Piano Sonatas (complete). Robert Levin, fortepiano (ECM New Series; 7 CDs; 2022), by Dorian Bandy
  • Hans Ernst Weidinger (1949–2023), by Magnus Tessing Schneider
  • “Hans Ernst Weidinger: An Appreciation,” by Ian Woodfield
Spring 2023 (Vol. 27, No. 1)
  • “The ‘alten Miserablen französischen arien’ in Mozart’s Ballet Les Petits Riens, K. Anh. 10 (299b) (1778),” by Bruce Alan Brown
  • The Villa Bertramka. Facets of the History of a Mozart Memorial in Prague, ed. by Milada Jonášová and Manfred Hermann Schmid, reviewed by Kathryn Libin
  • Italská opera v mozartovské Praze [Italian Opera in Mozartian Prague] by Marc Niubo, reviewed by Martin Nedbal
Fall 2022 (Vol. 26, No. 2)
  • Mozart and Salzburg: Report on the Conference, by Dianne Lehmann Goldman
  • Floyd Grave (1945–2021)
  • The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni by Magnus Tessing Schneider, reviewed by Robert Creigh
  • Don Giovanni’s Reasons: Thoughts on a Masterpiece by Felicity Baker, reviewed by Laurel E. Zeiss
  • CD Review: Resurrexi! Easter in Vienna with Mozart and the Haydn Brothers. The Choir of Keble College, Oxford, with Instruments of Time and Truth, Paul Brough, cond., reviewed by Bruce C. MacIntyre
Spring 2022 (Vol. 26, No. 1)
  • “Franz Xaver Niemetschek and the Mozart Circle in Early 1794: Previously Overlooked Documents,” by Martin Nedbal
  • Book Review: Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood by Adeline Mueller, reviewed by Alyson McLamore
Fall 2021 (Vol. 25, No. 2)
  • “New Details Regarding Chronology and Provenance of a Previously Long-Lost Mozart Autograph, the Magnificat in C Major, K. 321a,” by Christopher J. Salmon
  • Mozart’s Requiem in Pamplona (1844): Study and Music Edition by Miguel Ángel Marín and Aurelio Sagaseta, reviewed by Karina Zybina
  • Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito: A Reappraisal, ed. Magnus Tessing Schneider and Ruth Tatlow, reviewed by Anders Wiklund
Spring 2021 (Vol. 25, No. 1)
  • “One of the Mozarteum’s New Acquisitions,” by Steven N. Machtinger
  • Call for Papers: MSA and Society for Eighteenth-Century Music in Salzburg
  • “Francesco Benucci as Actor,” by Magnus Tessing Schneider
  • Robert H. Spaethling (1927–2020)
  • Book review: Tre opere su Don Giovanni per Praga, ed. Milada Jonášová and Tomislav Volek, reviewed by Martin Nedbal
  • Book review: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf: Kontexty a perspektivy, ed. Jan Blüml and Jana Spáčilová, reviewed by Martin Nedbal