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 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2
KODÁLY Háry János - Suite
CARPENTER Adventures in a Perambulator
music by GRAINGER, GRIFFES, SOWERBY, ENESCU, WEINBERGER
Studio recording, 1934
Total duration: 2hr 34:02
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Ormandy
MOZART Le Nozze di Figaro - Overture
MOZART Eight German Dances
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4
SMETANA Three Dances from The Bartered Bride
DELIBES Music from Sylvia & La Source
KREISLER Kreiserliana
SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht
music by Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Dvořák, Drigo
Studio recordings, 1934
Total duration: 2hr 32:37
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2
MOZART Symphony No. 35
Recorded 1959 and 1956
Total duration: 72:49
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Paul Paray
LORTZING, LANNER - Overtures
Recorded in Berlin, 1927-33
Total duration: 64:01
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor Hans Pfitzner
MOZART Quartet No. 16 in E flat, K.428
Recorded 24 April 1935, Raum VII (Lützowstraße 76), Berlin
Duration 33'26"
Hans Munch-Holland, cello
Carl Eugen Korner, viola
Will Smit, violin
Walter Prisca, violin
MOZART Symphony No. 31, "Paris"
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Love Duet (in English)
NONO Canti di vita e d’amore: Sul ponte di Hiroshima
DEBUSSY Nocturnes
Live stereo concert recording, 1962
Total duration: 78:30
Marie Collier, soprano
Dorothy Dorow, soprano
Richard Lewis, tenor
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard, conductor