Mozart: Traces of Transcendence

by Hans Kung, John John Bowden, Yehudi Menuhin

Overview

In a theological study of Mozart's music, Kung discusses the composer's Catholic background--something that, surprisingly, has hardly been treated by scholars--and reveals, among other things, the possibility of a new creative understanding of Mozart's "Coronation Mass", as interpretated by Mozart's music. A provocative study that may even surpass Karl Barth's famous work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802806888
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	02/19/1993
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.26(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Preface	ix
	Traces of Transcendence?	1
	Experiences with Mozart's Music
Theme 1	Catholic?	5
Theme 2	Religious?	8
Theme 3	Divine?	12
Theme 4	The Human, All-too-human	15
Theme 5	The Mystery	18
Theme 6	Bliss	21
Theme 7 and Finale	Traces of Transcendence	29
	Opium of the People?	37
	Theological Reflections on Mozart's Coronation Mass
	The Horizon of the Time	41
	The Kyrie	46
	The Gloria	48
	The Credo	55
	The Sanctus	60
	The Agnus Dei	67
	Notes	71
	Index	79