#secondary source

Books and Articles

Braunbehrens, Volkmar. Mozart in Vienna: 1781–1791. Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.

Cairns, David. Mozart and His Operas. Allen Lane, 2006.

Glover, Jane. Mozart in Italy: Coming of Age in the Land of Opera. Picador, 2023. [Not groundbreaking, but a nice read on young Mozart's early and influential travels.]

Hertzmann, Erich. "Mozart's Creative Process." Musical Quarterly 43, no. 2 (April 1957): 187-200. https://www.jstor.org/stable/740312.

Keefe, Simon P. "'We hardly knew what we should pay attention to first': Mozart the Performer-Composer at Work on the Viennese Piano Concertos." Journal of the Royal Musical Association 134, no. 2 (2009): 185-242. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40783214.

Sadie, Stanley. Mozart: The Early Years, 1756-1781. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Soloman, Maynard. Mozart: A Life. Harper Perennial, 1995. [In my mind seems to stand as the Mozart biography for a lot of people.]

Swafford, Jan. Mozart: Reign of Love. Harper Perennial, 2021. [Really enjoyed this one. The best book on Mozart I've read in the past few years.]

Tyson, Alan. Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores. Harvard University Press, 1990. [How niche do you want to get? He's using paper types to determine date of composition.]

Analysis and Lectures (YouTube)

Richard Atkinson

Inside the Score

Robert Levin, Composing and Improvising Mozart

The Music Professor

Bruce Adolphe, various lectures

Amadeus film analysis

Miscellany

Mozartiana - A blog run, as far as I can tell, by Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen. Seems defunct now and there isn't too much, but there are a some interesting articles on Mozart's life and times, such as one on the importance of roast beef.

NewsAGoGo (2010, Sep 10) [Deleted tweets]

Screencap source: girlautomatic (2010, Sep 11) [Tumblr Post]

I wonder what BTS needs to unlearn about Palestine. Why is Scooter still here- and why do people pretend he's the ONLY problem?

get obnoxious, ARMY. be louder than the literal, non metaphorical bombs. we do not need to demolish people for oil and a new nation made of united states. Greta has been released, but I've yet to find a statement that any other journalists and climate activists and HUMANS have been freed from Apartheid capture.

guys im starting to thing this is about english speakers literacy rates and not dan and phil. its always okay to double back for more info. looking up what you're talking about mid-argument is not cheating. taking notes about weird things you hear will help you remember them. i know it's a little extra work but it's so so worth it

Unfortunately, his confidence that balloons could be vastly improved upon was misplaced. The French Academy of Sciences used their considerable resources to explore improvements on the design, in four key areas: Finding the best balloon material, finding the best gas to fill it with, finding a way to control ascent and descent, and steering.

Here’s Lavoisier saying as much:

That last one ended up being the thing that prevented balloons from really taking off (if you’ll pardon the pun) in a big way. The French scientists were convinced that they could use the balloon for long-distance travel and military applications if they could figure out how to steer it, and loads of scientific organisations aside from the main Paris one tried to design a steerable balloon. There were a lot ideas as to how, some imitating ships (using oars, rudders, and/or sails to steer) and some imitating birds (using wing-like contraptions to steer), but none worked. The balloon was at the mercy of the air currents.