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, ...
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
REGER Four Tone Poems after Böcklin
IBERT Escales
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos
CHOPIN/ROGAL-LEVITZKY Chopiniana
MENOTTI Sebastian - Ballet Suite
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3
Live and Studio recordings, 1945-47
Total duration: 3hr 32:16
Vitya Vronsky, piano
Victor Babin, piano
Dimitri Mitropoulos, piano
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia
conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos
BACH-RESPIGHI Passacaglia and Fugue
MOZART Symphony No. 35 'Haffner'
FRANCK Psyché et Eros
DEBUSSY Ibéria
R. STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Live concert broadcast, 1937
Total duration: 76:11
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Pierre Monteux
SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
D’INDY: Symphony on a French Mountain Air
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 21
MOZART: Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 2
CHABRIER: Bourée Fantasque
Studio and Live recordings, 1947/48
Total duration: 2hr 12:55
Robert Casadesus, piano
Édouard Nies-Berger, organ
Walter Hendl and Arthur Schuller, piano
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
TELEMANN Suite for Flute and Strings
MOZART Divertimento No. 10
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1
SIBELIUS Finlandia
SIBELIUS The Swan of Tuonela
SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen’s Return
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1
ENESCU Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Studio recordings, 1937-1941
Total duration: 2hr 12:05
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Ormandy
J. S. BACH Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
MOZART Symphony No. 40
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"
Studio recordings, 1938-40
Total duration: 2hr 21:24
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Ormandy