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, ...
BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3, Partita No. 3
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8, 2 Overtures
GLUCK Alceste - Overture
MOZART Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter', 2 Overtures
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, 'Great'
Studio recordings, 1932-1937
Total duration: 2hr 34:13
BBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
BOULT Impressions of Albert Sammons
Broadcast in 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Total duration: 29:46
Albert Sammons, violin
Presented by Sir Adrian Boult
SCHOENBERG Piano Concerto, Op. 42
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major, Op.55
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K.595
Studio recordings, 1951-58
Total duration: 74:54
Alfred Brendel, piano
Südwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden, Gielen
Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Sternberg
Volksoper Wien Orchester, Angerer
BACH Violin Concerto No. 1
BACH Violin Concerto No. 2
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
Studio & Live Recordings · 1934 and 1945
Total duration: 76:12
Bronislaw Huberman violin
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Issay Dobrowen
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York - Bruno Walter
HAYDN Quartet in G, Op. 76, No. 1
MOZART “Hunt” Quartet
SCHUBERT “Death and the Maiden” Quartet
DVOŘÁK “American” Quartet
TCHAIKOVSKY Quartet No. 2 in F, Op. 22
Encores by Dittersdorf, Mendelssohn and Borodin
Studio recordings, 1926-29
Total duration: 2hr 35:50
The Budapest Quartet
MOZART Symphony No. 36 ‘Linz’
MOZART Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
MOZART German Dances & Contredanses
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21 (fragments)
WEBER Die Freischutz Overture
BACH Violin Concerto - 3rd mvt.
DVOŘÁK Karneval Overture
Studio & live recordings, 1933-1951
Total duration: 74:46
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Adolf Busch, violin
Radio-Symfoniorkestret
conducted by Fritz Busch