1. Mozart's leap in the dark / Cliff Eisen -- 2. 'Greatest effects with the least effort' : strategies of wind writing in Mozart's Viennese piano concertos / Simon P. Keefe -- 3. Play or compulsion? : variation in recapitulations in Mozart's music for wind instruments / Julian Rushton -- 4. Reading Mozart's operas 'for the sentiment' / Jessica Waldoff -- 5. 'E la fede degli amanti' and the Viennese operatic canon / Dorothea Link -- 6. Episode and necessity in 'Non ti fidar' from Don Giovanni / Edmund J. Goehring -- 7. The marriages of Don Giovanni : persuasion, impersonation, and personal responsibility / Elaine Sisman -- 8. Myth : Mozart, money, music / Daniel K. L. Chua -- 9. Postmodern Mozart and the politics of the mirror / James Currie

Since the bicentennial of Mozart's death in 1991, the principal concern of much Mozart research has been to situate the composer and his music in increasingly well informed biographical, historical, critical and analytical contexts. The contributors to these studies share this desire to paint ever-more rounded, focused and sensitive pictures of the composer by drawing upon wide-ranging historical materials and critical tools, and to project scholarly understandings considerably beyond narrow frames of reference