![]() ![]() Yes, the Köchel number is correct Mozart wrote his “Little Freemason Cantata” about a month before he died for the dedication of the new location for his Masonic Lodge. 623 (if you like the Masonic Funeral Music) (Please note that the recommended recording currently sells as an mp3 download for an amazing $8.99 and includes all Mozart’s symphonies-some twelve hours of music!)ĥ. Mozart’s genius is here encapsulated in a mere eight minutes. ![]() After a brief and pretty andante, the finale rushes in, building to an absolutely thrilling, and quintessentially Mozartean, flourish of an ending, full of swagger and high spirits. It opens with a smash, and the excitement never lets up over the course of the three-minute first movement. This eight-minute, tri-partite mini-symphony is a delight. 318 (if you like Mozart’s overtures and symphonies) The recording recommended below includes both the dances known to be the work of Mozart and other numbers that may have been written by Mozart.Ĥ. There are few recordings of these charming trifles. Other composers also contributed dance music to the production. In 1778, he was commissioned to write ballet music for an opera, Les Petits Riens ( The Small Things), a work by an obscure composer, Niccolo Piccini. ![]() Mozart wrote a goodly number of dances during his short lifetime. 299b (if you like Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) Beware, however: many conductors on record have failed to achieve this acoustic effect stick with the recording below by Jordi Savall, the only readily-available recording that gets it right.ģ. Mozart achieves an incredible effect in this charming nocturne, the four small ensembles participating in an echoing conversation. In between are two contemplative sections featuring a soprano soloist (she gets to show off in the concluding “Alleluia” too).Ģ. The fifteen-year-old Mozart opens and closes the piece with a bouncy, joyous tune for chorus. Overshadowed by the popular Exsultate Jubilate, which was written two years later, the Regina Coeli also features the soprano voice and is hardly less beautiful. ![]() Also listed next to each recommended, little-known piece is the Köchel catalogue number, for your convenience.ġ. I have noted next to each work what more popular Mozart piece it resembles. Therefore, to help expand your Mozartian horizons, dear readers, allow me to recommend ten pieces by the master that you likely have not heard but should hear. Nevertheless, even Mozart fans tend to stick to the tried-and-true, the perennial favorites-whether it is the “Jupiter” symphony, a late piano concerto, Figaro, or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. So, everything we have written by the “miracle which God let be born in Salzburg” is readily available to twenty-first century listeners. For the 225th anniversary of his death in 2016, the Universal record company released the newest of several (!) complete editions of every note Mozart wrote. A suitably adapted opera libretto by his new collaborator Lorenzo Da Ponte produced from the composer a score that matches the swiftly changing moods of this busy, intricate, and amorous comedy.There is really no “unknown” Mozart these days. It seems to have been Mozart’s own idea to set the scandalous play by Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais, which had already been banned in Paris and Vienna, but what cannot be spoken can sometimes be sung. The Marriage Of Figaro ( Le Nozze Di Figaro), premiered in 1786, is an ideal place to begin an exploration of the best Mozart works and the opera’s ‘Overture’ sets its mood perfectly. ‘Overture’ from The Marriage Of Figaro, K492 Listen to the best of Mozart on Apple Music and Spotify. Discover our selection of ten of the best Mozart works including a range of opera, symphony, concerto, chamber, and piano masterpieces by the legendary composer. He died on 5 December 1791, while working on his famous Requiem, at the age of 35. While visiting Vienna in 1781 he was dismissed from his Salzburg position and chose to stay in Vienna where he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos and operas during his final years. At 17 Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position. Leopold recognised his son’s extraordinary talents and took him on several performing tours throughout Europe. He was a child prodigy and composed his first piece of music when he was only five years old. Mozart was born in Salzburg on 27 January 1756 and was the son of Leopold Mozart, a successful composer, violinist and assistant concert master at the Salzburg court. He composed over 600 works for all the musical genres of his day including operas, concertos, symphonies, chamber music and sonatas, and excelled in each one. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the greatest and most influential composers in the history of Western music. ![]()
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