Mozart
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".
Mozart
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, ...
MOZART Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"*
Studio and Live recordings · 1962 & 1954
Total duration: 3hr 15:21
Richard Lewis - Tamino
Geraint Evans - Papageno
Joan Carlyle - Pamina
David Kelly - Sarastro
Hans Hotter - Speaker
Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Covent Garden
*Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer, conductor
MOZART Sinfonia Concertante
HAYDN Symphony No. 91
MUSSORGSKY A Night on the Bare Mountain
plus other short works
Recorded in 1937 and 1938
Total duration: 62:16
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor Viscount Hidemaro Konoye
J. S. BACH Concerto for 2 Violins
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
KREISLER Violin Concerto (in the style of Vivaldi)
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
PAGANINI (arr., Kreisler) Violin Concerto in One Movement
Studio recordings, 1915-1945
Total duration: 3hr 27:33
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Berlin State Opera Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Victor String Orchestra
conductors: Sir Landon Ronald, Eugene Goossens, Leo Blech, Eugene Ormandy, Donald Voorhees
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
MOZART Symphony No. 39
Recorded in 1950 and 1951
Total duration: 64:54
London Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Josef Krips
HAYDN String Quartet No. 5, 'Serenade'
HAYDN String Quartet No. 53, 'The Lark'
HAYDN String Quartet No. 61, 'Fifths'
HAYDN String Quartet No. 62, 'Emperor'
HAYDN String Quartet No. 64
MOZART String Quartet No. 14, 'Spring'
MOZART String Quartet No. 15
Studio recordings, 1923-1935
Total duration: 2hr 29:13
Léner String Quartet
Jenő Léner (violin I)
Josef Smilovits (violin II)
Sándor Róth (viola)
Imre Hartman (cello)
VARIOUS COMPOSERS Overtures and Dances
Studio recordings, 1931
Total duration: 77:50
London Symphony Orchestra
Leo Blech, conductor