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Mozart's Viennese instrumental Music: A study of stylistic re-invention. By Simon P. Keefe. Rochester NY: Boy-dell Press, 2007. [viii, 217 p. ISBN-10 1843833190; ISBN-13 9781843833192. $80.] Music examples, references, index.
Simon Keefe's engagement with Mozarfs compositions of the 1780s presents a daring reappraisal of the scholarly genre of style history. Crucially, Keefe has untied the knots between climactic works and their biographical position, which have formerly held together the complicated web woven from Romantic notions of biography and the idea of compositional maturity. Instead, Keefe's style history explicates in detailed analyses the intricacies ...