Mozart

Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.

Born in Salzburg, he 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, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position. 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 more than 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 is profound on subsequent Western art music. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".
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Mozart

Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.

Born in Salzburg, he 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, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, ...
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MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 14
MOZART Symphony No. 34
MOZART Serenade No. 6 'Serenata notturna'
MOZART Adagio and Fugue in C minor
Additional music by Beethoven, Gabrieli, Purcell, Schütz, Stafford Smith

Live and studio recordings, 1937-51
Total duration: 2hr 28:02

Adolf Busch, violin
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Busch Chamber Players
Orquesta de cámara de la Asociación Amigos de la Música
directed and conducted by Adolf Busch

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    Mozart Symphonies 31, 35, 36
    Mozart Complete Beecham Acoustic Recordings, 1915-1917
    Studio recordings · 1915-1954
    Total duration: 79:54

    Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Beecham Symphony Orchestra
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    Mozart Symphonies 38, 39

    Mozart Divertimento No. 2
    Studio recordings · 1950/55
    Total duration: 76:40

    Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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    Mozart Symphonies 40, 41
    Mozart
    Bassoon Concerto
    Mozart
     The Marriage of Figaro: Overture

    Studio recordings · 1912-1958
    Producer and XR Remastering: Andrew Rose
    Cover artwork based on a photograph of Sir Thomas Beecham
    Total duration: 75:28

    Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
    Gwydion Brooke, bassoon
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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    MOZART Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

    Studio recording from 1937-8
    Total duration: 2hr 10:01

    Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
    Favres Solisten Vereinigung
    conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
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    MOZART Requiem in D minor, K.626
    SCHUBERT
    Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485

    Studio recordings, 1954-1959
    Total duration: 77:52

    Elsie Morison soprano
    Monica Sinclair contralto
    Alexander Young tenor
    Marian Nowakowski bass
    BBC Chorus, dir. Leslie Woodgate
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor