A Context for Mozart's French Ariettes: The Wendling Family and Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe

This essay examines Mozart's relationship to the Wendling family and the French ariettes he wrote during his visit to Mannheim. Through documen-tary evidence we glimpse the underside of court life, involving an affair between Elisabeth Augusta Wendling and Elector Palatine Carl Theodor. Six ye...

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Main Author: Paul Corneilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2006-04-01
Series:Current Musicology
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5069