Robert Kelly
Listening Through: Twenty-Seven Concertos for Piano
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Listening Through: Twenty-seven Concertos for Piano by Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart called Amadé
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​People have been writing about music for centuries, finding melodies for words, and words for melodies, or writing about what the music makes them feel. I yearned for something different —— I wanted to know what would happen if I listened through the music, that is, approach the music with an empty mind and let it start talking in me.
Practically speaking, I began writing the instant the music began and stopped abruptly when the music ended. That suggested to me the movements within a concerto or symphony, so I turned to the concertos of Mozart for piano.
My own musical taste draws me to late romanticism — Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss — and I didn’t want my own taste to get in the way. So I turned to the brilliant complexity and rich emotional variegation of Mozart. So one January I kept at it…
Title Info
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Robert Kelly,
Listening Through: Twenty-seven concertos for Piano... (2025)
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ISBN: 978-1940625799
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USD $21.00​​
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Our other Kelly books include: A City Full of Voices, and A Voice Full of Cities.