Mozart: Traces of Transcendence - Softcover

Kung, Mr. Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802806880 ISBN 13: 9780802806888

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source, 1993

Synopsis

Much has been written about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but relatively little on he religious dimension of his person and his music. In this book Hans Küng offers an intriguing theological probing into Mozart's musical work. / Küng begins by discussing Mozart's Catholic background — something that, surprisingly, has already been treated by Mozart scholars. He moves on to explore how Mozart's music itself displays to the keen ear “traces of transcendence,” giving intimations of a mysterious bliss transcending even all music. / The second part of the book sheds new light on Mozart's “Coronation Mass” in view of its contemporary cultural and political horizon, setting this mass against the critical confrontation with religion that was already beginning at that time. Küng's approach here reveals, among other things, he possibility of a new creative understanding of the texts of the mass as interpreted by Mozart's music. / Hans Küng's provocative Mozart: Traces of Transcendence complements and, for many readers, will even surpass Karl Barth's famous study.

About this title

About the Author:

Hans Küng is president of the Global Ethic Foundation (Germany/Switzerland) after retiring in 1996 as professor of ecumenical theology and director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research at the University of Tübingen. He is the author of more than fifty books, including The Catholic Church and On Being a Christian.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0802806880
• ISBN 13: 9780802806888
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 108