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Cliff Eisen (born in Toronto, 21 January 1952) is a Canadian musicologist and one of the world's leading Mozart experts. He is based in the Department of Music at King's College London. As part of the Department's strong connections with the Royal Academy of Music, Eisen also leads courses there. He has studied at the University of Toronto, at Cornell University and has taught at the University of Western Ontario and New York University. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Musicology is reasoned discourse concerning music (Greek: μοÏ
Ïικη = music and Î»Î¿Î³Î¿Ï = word or reason). In other words: the whole body of systematized knowledge about music which results from the application of a scientific method of investigation or research, or of philosophical speculation and rational systematization to the facts, the processes and the...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ...
Kings College London was founded in 1829 and received its royal charter that same year, making it Englands third oldest university institution (predated only by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge). ...
The Royal Academy of Music is a music school in London, England and one of the leading music institutions in the world. ...
The University of Toronto (U of T) is a non-denominational, provincially-supported, coeducational public research university located in Toronto, Ontario. ...
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The University of Western Ontario (Western or UWO) is a coeducational, non-denominational, research-intensive university located in London, Ontario. ...
New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ...
Eisen is associate editor of the new Köchel catalogue and received the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society in 1992. His research focuses on the Classical period, particularly Mozart and performance practice. He has written extensively on the issues of authenticity surrounding the works of Leopold Mozart and his son, Wolfgang. Other publications of his deal with Mozart's chamber music, life in Salzburg, biography and his life in contemporary documentation. ...
Alfred Einstein (December 30, 1880âFebruary 13, 1952), was a German-American musicologist and music editor. ...
1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
The Classical period in Western music occurred from about 1730 through 1820, despite considerable overlap at both ends with preceding and following periods, as is true for all musical eras. ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ...
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 â May 28, 1787) was a composer, music teacher and violinist. ...
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Flag of Salzburg Salzburg (population 145,000 in 2005) is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 520,000 in 2003). ...
Eisen has been an adviser to Robert Levin and Christopher Hogwood for recordings of the complete Mozart piano concertos. Robert D. Levin (b. ...
Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood (born 10 September 1941) is a well-known British conductor and harpsichordist. ...
A piano concerto is a concerto for solo piano and orchestra. ...
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