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Listen to MOZART's Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 : Requires Real Player
Listen to MOZART's Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K.216 : Requires Real Player
Listen to MOZART's Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Orchestra K 297b : Requires Real Player
Understanding the Music: Mozart - Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major for Violin and Viola, K. 364
Understanding the Music: Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218
Understanding the Music: Mozart - Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat major, K. 452
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Additional Resources
Review - "From NSO, a Wagnerian Class Act": The Washington Post - Washington, DC (Jan. 13, 2006)
a “…not-to-be-missed concert”
Related Article - "Mozart at 250: No Signs of Slowing Down": The Washington Post - Washington, DC (Jan. 22, 2006)
"It is now 250 years since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria -- and some 245 years since this prodigy among prodigies fashioned his first little pieces for keyboard under the helpful eye of his father, Leopold. The world has changed radically since 1756 but Mozart remains a constant -- we continue to regard the mixture of clarity, grace and formal balance in his music with undiminished awe. He seems to have been incapable of vulgarity or overstatement: In his mature works, th
Review - "'Abduction': Taken With a Grain of Salt": The Washington Post - Washington, DC (Jan. 26, 2006)
'arresting"
Review - Mozart 1, Drama 0: The Score's the Thing in 'La Clemenza': The Washington Post - Washington, DC (May 8, 2006)
"If a constant welling of glorious music were all it took to make a successful opera, we'd hear Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito" much more often than we do. The score is shot through with the serene, autumnal radiance that suffuses other works from the composer's last months -- the Clarinet Concerto, "The Magic Flute," "Ave Verum Corpus" and those portions of the Requiem that Mozart lived to complete."
a “…not-to-be-missed concert”
Related Article - "Mozart at 250: No Signs of Slowing Down": The Washington Post - Washington, DC (Jan. 22, 2006)
"It is now 250 years since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria -- and some 245 years since this prodigy among prodigies fashioned his first little pieces for keyboard under the helpful eye of his father, Leopold. The world has changed radically since 1756 but Mozart remains a constant -- we continue to regard the mixture of clarity, grace and formal balance in his music with undiminished awe. He seems to have been incapable of vulgarity or overstatement: In his mature works, th
Review - "'Abduction': Taken With a Grain of Salt": The Washington Post - Washington, DC (Jan. 26, 2006)
'arresting"
Review - Mozart 1, Drama 0: The Score's the Thing in 'La Clemenza': The Washington Post - Washington, DC (May 8, 2006)
"If a constant welling of glorious music were all it took to make a successful opera, we'd hear Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito" much more often than we do. The score is shot through with the serene, autumnal radiance that suffuses other works from the composer's last months -- the Clarinet Concerto, "The Magic Flute," "Ave Verum Corpus" and those portions of the Requiem that Mozart lived to complete."
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Biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
About the Artist
International acclaim is nothing new for Mozart. Believing him a gift of God, his father exhibited Mozart's manifest talents to the world. Acclaimed in his own era, Mozart was well regarded as a man of unique musical abilities and talents by his contemporaries. His works were prodigious; beginning at age 10, Mozart composed fifty symphonies during his life. In his youth, he was knighted by the Pope and performed for the King and Queen of England.
He was gifted with "perfect pitch", Mozart's inborn abilities as a natural musician became increasingly evident the older he grew. Other seemingly supernatural gifts were equally as stunning. It was not uncommon for young Mozart to pick up an instrument and play it without a single lesson. At twenty-five, Mozart married and settled in his homeland of Austria. Although Emperor Joseph of Austria briefly employed him, Mozart struggled to clothe and feed his family. Ironically enough, the Emperor clothed Mozart in fine apparel and bestowed upon him the gift of a large ring to be worn during performances. Mozart wrote for every genre of music known to him, including symphonies, concertos, chamber music, church music, operas, and operettas - most of which are regarded as masterpieces today. Among his most acclaimed works are the operas Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, and Figaro. Although Mozart died at the age of thirty-five, his legacy on western music is profound: not just in terms of sheer numbers, but in their emotional impact, his works include the frivolous and lively to the solemn and morose.
