Court, government and society in Mozart's Vienna / Derek Beales -- Mozart's personality and creativity / Andrew Steptoe -- Some chronological problems in Mozart: the contribution of ink-studies / John Arthur -- Sketches during the process of composition : studies of K.504 and K.414 / Laszlo Somfai -- Mozart's reception in Vienna, 1787-1791 / Dexter Edge -- Prospects for a theory-based analysis of the instrumental music / Kofi Agawu -- 'To serve the private pleasure' : expression and form in the string quartets / Wye J. Allanbrook -- An interpretation of musical dreams : towards a theory of the Mozart piano concerto cadenza / William Drabkin -- The Salzburg symphonies : a biographical interpretation / Cliff Eisen -- Learned style and the rhetoric of the sublime in the 'Jupiter' Symphony / Elaine R. Sisman -- Mozart, Da Ponte and the ensemble : methods in progress? / Tim Carter.