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”
Overtures, marches and short works by
Alford, Auber, German, Handel, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Offenbach, Suppé, Wagner
Studio recordings, 1927-1934
Total duration: 74:38
Symphony Orchestra
Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra
conducted by Sir Dan Godfrey
Music by Bach, Beethoven, Bloch, Busoni, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, Kabalevsky, Liszt, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Saeverud, Schumann et al
JASCHA SPIVAKOVSKY Bach to Bloch - Volume 1
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JASCHA SPIVAKOVSKY Bach to Bloch - Volume 3
JASCHA SPIVAKOVSKY Bach to Bloch - Volume 4
JASCHA SPIVAKOVSKY Bach to Bloch - Volume 5
JASCHA SPIVAKOVSKY Bach to Bloch - Volume 6
JASCHA SPIVAKOVSKY Bach to Bloch - Volume 7
JASCHA SPIVAKOVSKY Bach to Bloch - Volume 8
JASCHA SPIVAKOVSKY Bach to Bloch - Volume 9
JASCHA SPIVAKOVSKY Bach to Bloch - Volume 10
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MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
CHOPIN Nocturne in F sharp
LISZT Liebestraum No. 3
Live and studio recordings, 1927-1956
Total duration: 57:59
Jascha Spivakovsky, piano
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Pierre Monteux
BBC Northern Orchestra
conducted by Stanford Robinson
Bach-Busoni Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue
Mozart Piano Sonata No. 12 in F
Beethoven Ecossaises in E Flat
Beethoven Rondo in G major
Chopin Fantaisie Impromptu
Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat Minor, “The Funeral March
Recorded 1955-1967
Duration 77:12
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
Live broadcast recordings, 1949 & 1953
Total duration: 58:22
Jascha Spivakovsky, piano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Clarence Raybould
Victorian Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sir Bernard Heinze
BACH Italian Concerto
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 5
SCHUBERT Impromptu in E flat
CHOPIN Nocturne in F sharp
CHOPIN Waltz in E minor
LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15
SCHUMANN Piano Sonata No. 3
Recorded 1955-66
Total duration: 71:40
Jascha Spivakovsky, piano