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The Newsletter of the Mozart Society of America is published twice a year in January and August. Subscription to the Newsletter is included in the membership dues.

John A. Rice, Editor
Rochester, Minn.
E-mail: lydiar@rconnect.com

Kay Lipton, Editor (2000-2003)
Edmund Goehring, Founding Editor

Please see Current Newsletter to read selected items from the issue.


Contents: Vol. I, No.1, January 1997

  • Founding of Mozart Society of America
  • Guest Column by Daniel Heartz
  • Der neue Köchel by Neal Zaslaw
  • Abstracts of Mozart Papers to be delivered at the 16th Congress of the International Musicological Society, 1420 August 1997, London, England
  • Work by American Scholars: 1995 (books, articles, and dissertations)
  • Calendar
  • Mozart Fiction: An Example from the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Dan Leeson

The first issue of the Newsletter is dedicated to Alan Tyson.

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Contents: Vol. I, No.2, August 1997

  • New Mozart Documents Discovered
  • Guest Column by Christoph Wolff
  • Mozart Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library: A Checklist by Rigbie Turner
  • Abstracts of Mozart Papers to be delivered at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, 30 Octoberö2 November 1997, Phoenix, Arizona
  • Work by American Scholars: 1996 (books, articles, and dissertations)
  • Calendar
  • Meeting of the Society/Study Session
  • Book Review
  • Membership Drive Now On by Roye Wates

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Contents: Vol. II, No.1, January 1998

  • Harvard College Library Receives Gift of Major Mozart Collection by John Howard
  • Guest Column by Dexter Edge
  • Exequies for Mozart: A New Documentary Finding Concerning the Requiem Mass Held for W.A.Mozart in St.Michael's Church in Vienna on 10 December 1791 by Walther Brauneis
  • Recording Review by Eric Offenbacher
  • Obituary: Barry Brook, 1918ö1997
  • Book Review: Stanley Sadie, ed., Wolfgang Amade Mozart: Essays on His Life and His Music by Edmund Goehring
  • Schedule of music-related activities at the 29th Annual National Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), 1ö5 April 1998, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
  • Calls for Papers
  • Mozart in London: "The New Köchel" at the International Musicological Society, August 1997 by Roye Wates
  • Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Mozart Society of America, 31 October 1997
  • Calendar

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Contents: Vol. II, No.2, August 1998

  • Mozart in Vienna: The Myth of "the Best Place in the World" by Volkmar Braunbehrens
  • Guest Column by Joseph Kerman
  • A Mozart Autograph in America by Daniel Leeson
  • Recording Review by Simon P. Keefe
  • Abstracts of Mozart Papers to be delivered at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, 28 Octoberö1 November 1998, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Correspondence
  • Works in English: 1997 (books, articles, and dissertations)
  • Calls for Papers
  • Calendar

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Contents: Vol. III, No.1, January 1999

  • Mozart Manuscripts in the Library of Congress: A Checklist by Denise P. Gallo
  • Guest Column by Robert L. Marshall
  • Recording ReviewBook Review: Dorothea Link, The National Court Theatre in Mozart's Vienna: Sources and Documents, 1783-1792 by Evan Baker
  • "Mozart Discoveries": New Evidence, New Questions by Jessica Waldoff
  • Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Mozart Society of America, 30 October 1998
  • Report on Study Session  and Abstracts of Mozart Papers delivered at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, 28 October-1 November 1998, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Calls for Papers and Calendar

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Contents: Vol. III, No.2, August 1999

  • 1999 MSA Study Session
  • Guest Column by Wye J. Allanbrook
  • An Overlooked Accompanied Recitative to "Vado, ma dove," K. 583 by Dorothea Link
  • Improvising Face to Face by John A. Rice
  • Book Review: Ruth Halliwell, The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context by Mary Sue Morrow
  • Recording Review by Eric Offenbacher
  • Abstracts of a Mozart Paper to be delivered at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society,  4ö7 November 1999, Kansas City, Missouri
  • Abstracts of Papers delivered at the Mozart Society of America Session during the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), 28 March 1999, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Works in English: 1998
  • Calendar


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Contents: Vol. IV, No. 1, January 2000
  • 2000 MSA Study Session
  • Guest Column by Maynard Soloman
  • Manuscripts in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Checklist by Daniel N. Leeson
  • Autograph of recitative "Tuttp e disputo" from Le nozze di Figaro Courtesy of Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries
  • Recording Reviewby Eric Offenbacher
  • Abstracts of Mozart Papers to be delivered at the 31st Annual National Meeting of the American Society for 18th Century Studies, Philadelphia, 12-16 April 2000
  • MSA Financial Report: 1 July 1998-30 June 1999
  • Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Mozart Society of America, 5 November 1999
  • Calendar

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Contents: Vol. IV, No. 2, August 2000

  • 2000 MSA Study Session
  • Guest Column by Bathia Churgin
  • Drawing by Nannerl Mozart at the bottom margin of her manuscriptMusic Dept, Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
  • Book Review by John Platoff
  • Recording Review by Kathryn L. Shanks Libin
  • First Biennial Conference of the MSA by Mary Sue Morrow
  • Mozart's E-Minor Fugue for Keyboard: Chronicle of an Abandoned Labor by Robert D. Levin
  • Works in English 1999
  • Calendar

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Contents: Vol. V, No. 1, January 2001

  • 2001 MSA Study Session
  • Guest Column by Otto Biba
  • Report from Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections by John Platoff
  • Alan Tyson, 1926-2000 by Neal Zaslaw
  • The Earliest Born Recorded Mozart Singer by Eric Offenbacher
  • Book Review by Francesco Blanchetti
  • Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Mozart Society of America 3 November 2000
  • MSA Financial Report: 1 July 1999-30 June 2000
  • Calendar

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Contents: Vol. V, No. 2, August 2001

  • 2001 MSA Study Session
  • Guest Column by Wolfgang Rehm
  • Mozart in Asia: Salzburg in February 2001 by Bruno Nettl
  • Book Review by Michael Ochs
  • A Mozart Manuscript Fragment at the Unversity of Western Ontario by Annabelle Paetsch
  • Conference Report: Mozart in Las Vegas by Kay Lipton
  • Mozart in Las Vegas: Abstracts
  • Works in English: 2000
  • The American Burial Site of Lorenzo da Ponte by Dan Leeson
  • Calendar

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Contents: Vol. VI, No. 1, January 2002

  • 2002 MSA Study Session
  • Guest Column by Albu Rosenthal
  • The Tomb of Countess Walsegg by Brendan Cormican
  • A Mozart Manuscript at Yale by Richard Boursy
  • Book Review by Malcolm S. Cole
  • An Informal Review: Mittidate at the Santa Fe Opera, Summer 2001 by Jane R. Stevens
  • Mozart and the Keyboard: Call for Papers
  • Minutes of the Mozart Society of America Annual Meeting, 16 November 2001
  • MSA Financial Reports: 1 July 2000-30 June 2001
  • Calendar

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Contents: Vol. VI, No. 2, August 2002

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Contents: Vol. VII, No. 1: 27 January 2003

  • 2003 MSA Study Session
  • Guest Column by Eva Badura-Skoda
  • From the President by Isabelle Emerson
  • Carl Cannabich and His Cantata by Eric Offenbacher
  • Mozartiana at the Newberry Library by Thomas Bauman
  • Recording Review: Divas of Mozart's Day by Malcolm S. Cole
  • Recording Review: Cosi Fan Tutte by Sven Hansell
  • Abstracts of Mozart Papers Delivered at the Meeting of the International Musicological Society, Leuven, Belgium, 1-7 August 2002
  • Minutes of the Mozart Society of America Business Meeting and Study Session, 1 November 2002, Columbus, Ohio
  • Calendar

Contents: Vol. VII, No. 2: 27 August 2003

  • 2003 MSA Study Session
  • Guest Column by Eva Einstein
  • From the President by Isabelle Emerson
  • Mozartiana Americana by Martin Wacksman
  • Works in English: 2002
  • Book Review: Robert Munster, "ich wurde Munchen gewis Ehre machen": Mozart und der Kerfurstliche Hof zu Munchen. Weissenhorn (Germany): Anton H. Konrad Verlag, 2002.
  • Calendar

Contents: Vol. VIII, No. 1: 27 January 2004

  • 2004 MSA Study Session
  • Guest Column by Ulrich Konrad
  • From the President by Isabelle Emerson
  • George Bernard Shaw: Mozart and His Musical Self-Respect by Bruce Cooper Clarke
  • A Curious Historical Connection between Mozart and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania by Daniel N. Leeson.
  • Abstracts of Mozart Papers to be Delivered at the Mozart Society of America Session during the Annual National Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, 24-28 March 2004
  • Mozart and the Keyboard Culture of His Time, Mozart Society of America: Second Biennial Conference Cornell University, 27-30 March 2003, Abstracts of Papers Presented
  • Abstracts of Mozart Papers Delivered at the Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Houston, Texas, 13-16 November 2003
  • Mozart Society of America Business Meeting and Study Session, 12 Noon, 14 November 2003, Houston, Texas
  • Calendar

Contents: Vol. IX, No. 1: 27 January 2005

  • 2005 MSA Study Session
  • The Jenamy Concerto by Michael Lorenz
  • From the President by Isabelle Emerson
  • Besitzer Nicht Langer Unbekannt: the case of [Mozart's?] K. 565a by Ellwood Derr
  • Lorenzo da Ponte: Father/Architect of the Library of Congress's Italian Collection by Daniel N. Leeson.
  • Two Performances of Mzart's La finta giardiniera by Sven Hansell
  • Minutes from the Mozart Society of America Business Meeting and Study Session, 12 November 2004, Seattle, Washington by Peter Hoyt
  • Abstracts of Mozart Papers to be Delivered at the Mozart Society of America Session during the Annual National Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, Nevada, 31 March-3 April 2005
  • Calendar

Contents: Vol. X, No. 1: 27 January 2006

  • 2006 MSA Study Session
  • Papa Mozart by Paul Corneilson
  • Mozart and Anton Klein by Daniel Heartz
  • Mozart Copied! But Did He Pay Homage? by Balazs Mikusi [winner of the MSA essay contest]
  • Letter from Vienna by Sven Hansell
  • Abstracts of Mozart Papers to be Delivered at the Mozart Society of America Session during the Annual National Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, , 30 March-2 April 2006
  • Eva Einstein ~ 1910-2005 by Daniel Leeson
  • Mozart Society of America: Financial Report 2004-2005
  • Minutes from the Mozart Society of America Business Meeting and Study Session, 28 October 2005, Washington, D.C. by Bruce Brown
  • Calendar

Contents: Vol. X, No. 2: 27 August 2006

  • 2006 MSA Study Session
  • Mozartiana in the Roudnice Lobkowicz Library by Kathryn L. Libin
  • Regietheater: A Major Problem in the Sung and Spoken Theater of Vienna Today by Sven Hansell
  • Book Review by John A.. Rice [review of Daniel N. Leeson. The Mozart Forgeries. New York: iUniverse, 2004]
  • Grover's Grand German Opera, The Magic Flute, and Abraham Lincoln by Martin Wacksman
  • Reminiscences of the Society's Third Biennial Conference Mozart's Choral Music: Composition, Contexts, Performance Indiana University, 10-12 February 2006 by William E. Hettrick
  • Mozart on the Mesa: The 2006 Joint Conference with the Santa Fe Opera 29 June- 1 July 2006 by Gabriel Lubell
  • Mozart Society at the Santa Fe Opera: Die Zauberflote Abstracts
  • Works in English: 2005
  • Calendar

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