Fatal Dilemma The Secrets Of Constanze Mozart
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Fatal Dilemma: The Secrets of Constanze Mozart
H. S. Brockmeyer’s obsession with the composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, continues in the wake of her first book, Echoes of a Distant Crime: Resolving the Mozart Cold Case File. In this new book, a fictional work exploring the personality of Mozart’s wife, Constanze, the author investigates scenarios that she imagined may have happened in real life in the last three years of the composer’s life, 1789 – 1791, through the eyes of his wife, Constanze – and re-visualized through the eyes of a 21st century woman. Beginning in the last two days of Mozart’s life on 3 December, 1791, Brockmeyer pieces together scenes that correspond with real-life documents of activities surrounding Mozart and his secretive death and burial in 1791. Investigating Constanze Mozart and the enigmatic personality of this fascinating woman who married Mozart, H. S. Brockmeyer reveals the depth and passion of their relationship; their marriage hitting a rough spot in the last year of Mozart’s life – and how Constanze Mozart experienced their marriage in the shadow of her genius husband, Wolfgang Mozart, the incomparable composer and musician, in the fast-paced musical scene in Europe’s musical hub of Vienna. Calling upon her experience in researching Mozart for over thirty years, including travels to Vienna, Salzburg, and Prague – places where Mozart and his wife visited or lived – H. S. Brockmeyer conjures up an uncanny picture of Constanze’s relationship with her brilliant husband, revealing a tale of love, passion, and thwarted dreams, in a recreation of Constanze Mozart’s life in the foreground of a colorful 18th century tapestry. If you have ever wondered who Mozart’s wife really was, this book may provide a more comprehensive image, in a rich re-creation of Constanze’s life, surrounded by Mozart and his acquaintances, in a life long ago, where a modern-day revision brings alive the one-dimensional persona of Constanze Weber Mozart, and spotlights her hopes, dreams – and her choices -- in the last three years of Mozart’s life.
Toleration in Conflict
Author: Rainer Forst
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2013-01-17
The concept of toleration plays a central role in pluralistic societies. It designates a stance which permits conflicts over beliefs and practices to persist while at the same time defusing them, because it is based on reasons for coexistence in conflict - that is, in continuing dissension. A critical examination of the concept makes clear, however, that its content and evaluation are profoundly contested matters and thus that the concept itself stands in conflict. For some, toleration was and is an expression of mutual respect in spite of far-reaching differences, for others, a condescending, potentially repressive attitude and practice. Rainer Forst analyses these conflicts by reconstructing the philosophical and political discourse of toleration since antiquity. He demonstrates the diversity of the justifications and practices of toleration from the Stoics and early Christians to the present day and develops a systematic theory which he tests in discussions of contemporary conflicts over toleration.
The Red Countess
Author: Hermynia Zur Mühlen
language: en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date: 2018-08-20
Praise for the first edition of this book: This translation is something of an event. For the first time, it makes Zur Mühlen’s text available to English-speaking readers in a reliable version. —David Midgley, University of Cambridge [This book] represents exceptional value, both as an enjoyable read and as an introduction to an attractive author who amply deserves rediscovery. —Ritchie Robertson, Journal of European Studies, 42(1): 106-07. Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her German Junker husband, and set out as an independent, free-thinking individual, earning a precarious living as a writer. Zur Mühlen translated over 70 books from English, French and Russian into German, notably the novels of Upton Sinclair, which she turned into best-sellers in Germany; produced a series of detective novels under a pseudonym; wrote seven engaging and thought-provoking novels of her own, six of which were translated into English; contributed countless insightful short stories and articles to newspapers and magazines; and, having become a committed socialist, achieved international renown in the 1920s with her Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children, which were widely translated including into Chinese and Japanese. Because of her fervent and outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she and her life-long Jewish partner, Stefan Klein, had to flee first Germany, where they had settled, and then, in 1938, her native Austria. They found refuge in England, where Zur Mühlen died, forgotten and virtually penniless, in 1951.