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Simon P. Keefe is James Rossiter Hoyle Chair of Music at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of three books on Mozart, including Mozart's Requiem: Reception, Work, Completion (Cambridge, 2012), which won the 2013 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award. He is also the editor of six volumes for Cambridge University Press, including Mozart Studies (2006) and Mozart Studies 2 (2015), and is general editor of the Royal Musical Association monographs series. In 2005 he was elected a life member of the Academy for Mozart Research at the International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg.

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Part I. Beginnings, 1781-1782: 1. Settling in Vienna: exploiting opportunities for instrumental performance and composition; 2. Singers and effects: seeking operatic success in Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Part II. Instrumental and Vocal Music, 1782-1786: 3. Consolidating experiences and expanding horizons: the instrumental music, 1782-83; 4. 'You can easily imagine that I must inevitably play some new things': Mozart's piano concertos and other instrumental works for concerts, 1784-1786; 5. Composing, performing and publishing: the 'Haydn' string quartets and other chamber music for publication, 1784-86; 6. Operas, arias, ensembles, songs and a mass: vocal and dramatic music, 1782-86; Part III. The Da Ponte Operas, 1786-1790: 7. Le nozze di Figaro; 8. In Prague and Vienna: Don Giovanni, 1787-88; 9. The Figaro revival and Così fan tutte; Part IV. Instrumental Music, 1786-90: 10. For publication and performance: solo and chamber music; 11. Orchestral music and concert activities; Part V. Mozart in 1791: 12. New beginnings, continuations and endings: Mozart's last year.