Mozart, Marcos Portugal and Their Time

The present volume brings together texts by researchers from Portugal and internationally working, on the one hand, on Mozart – the composer who most fully symbolises the last quarter of the eighteenth century – and, on the other, on his younger contemporary Marcos Portugal – a composer possibly more typical of the Europe of their time and certainly more widely in fashion than Mozart was – as well as on the period in which they worked. The apparent disparity between the lives and fortunes of the two composers results in a fascinating, broad-based discussion of the contexts of composition and reception of the works of both.