Colin Wilson, Mozart’s Journey to Prague: a playscript

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1992

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England (Country of Origin)

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Colin Wilson wrote

Mozart’s Journey to Prague

(first performed 1991) in response to a request from the violinist Paul Robertson, founder and leader of the Medici String Quartet, for a play about the celebrated Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). For Wilson, Mozart’s music, at its highest, had long seemed to instantiate and intimate the state of enhanced consciousness towards which human beings should strive to evolve. As he remarks in his introduction to the playscript, one of his key points of reference in his first book

The Outsider

(1956), and in subsequent texts, was the passage in the novel

Der Steppenwolf

[

Steppenwolf

] (1927) by Herman Hesse (1877-1962) in which the protagonist, Harry Haller, has an exalted moment in which he feels that “Die goldene Spur war…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Mozart’s Journey to Prague: a playscript". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 December 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24003, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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