Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.

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

COATES Mozart: Symphony No. 41; Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (1926-27) - PASC455

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MOZART Symphony No. 41
MOZART The Impressario, Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3
HMV Studio Recordings ∙ 1926 – 1927
Total duration: 71:42

Albert Coates, conductor
London Symphony Orchestra
"Symphony Orchestra"

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COATES The Pristine Collection - transfers by Ward Marston (1921-30) - PABX024

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BACH (arr Elgar) - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor
BEETHOVEN - Gratulations-Menuett
BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus - Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony No. 5
TCHAIKOVSKY - Francesca da Rimini
BORODIN - Prince Igor - Ballet
MOZART - Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter'
MOZART - Der Schauspieldirektor - Overture
BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 7
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"
TCHAIKOVSKY March Slave
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
GLINKA Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Coq d'Or - suite
STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite
RAVEL Ma Mère l'Oye - Suite
Music by Glinka, Liadov, Debussy
STRAVINSKY Petrushka Ballet
BORODIN Prince Igor - excerpts
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Czar Sultan - Suite
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV May Night - Overture
MUSSORGSKY Khovanshchina: Persian Dances