Welcome to Wednesday, this week we return to our regular midweek feature, New Adventures in Good Music, after last week's detour into Handel's Water Music. We also get to double dip on Mozart this week as dear old Wolfie Amadeus is the subject of this week's BBC Great Composers Documentary. As we discovered earlier this week, we have not heard everything by Mozart, yet, but we will keep exploring. Here is the video synopsis:
"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsaʁt], English
see fn. 27 January 1756 -- 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes
Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart,was a prolific and influential
composer of the Classical era.
Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.
He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound; Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years.""
Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.
He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound; Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years.""
As a companion piece, I have selected Mozart's Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E-flat major, "Kegelstatt", K. 498 (1786) for my tumblr with a performance by Michel Portal on Clarinet, Bruno Pasquier on Viola and Jean-Claude Pennetier on Piano.
Then of course it is Hump Day and I should give you something to get you 'wet down there' and ready to 'hump'. For that, I have a bucketful of beauty in this week's edition of Wet Wednesday posted down below. Then over on my tumblr, your Hottie of the Day! is a 'Poolside Buffet' all ready to eat. Thanks for the visit, see you again real soon. Until next time as always, Enjoy!
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