Norms of Taste and the Music of Mozart

The Norms of Taste and the Music of Mozart uncovers what contemporaries meant when they praised composers like Mozart for their "e;good taste"e; 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's Geschmack und Compositionswissenschaft, this book ...