Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hogwood, the artistic director of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society, criticized the way in which the "Mozart industry" has placed the composer on a pedestal as a cultural icon...
Hogwood said that Mozart's elevation to the status of cultural hero has hampered attempts to study the composer and his music from a critical perspective. Hogwood also maintained that the recent conception of Mozart as a universal genius has dominated earlier evaluations of the composer...
Modern listeners should question whether "Mozart was the best at absolutely everything," Hogwood said...
Hogwood said he played excerpts from several well-known Mozart compositions in order to teach the audience how to think about modern deviations in instrument construction, performance technique and social context of musical performance...
...things that we take for granted in Mozart were in fact different in his day," Hogwood said...