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 Divertimento in B flat major, K.254
MOZART Piano Trio in G major, K.564
MOZART Piano Trio in B flat major, K.502
Recorded c.1953, Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal, Vienna
Duration 61:23
MOZART Piano Trio in E major, K.542
MOZART Piano Trio in G major, K.496
MOZART Piano Trio in C major, K.548
Recorded c.1953, Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal, Vienna
Released as Westminster LPs 52-42, 52-67
Duration 65:18
Jean Fournier, violin
Antonio Janigro, cello
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano
BEETHOVEN "Archduke" Trio (1951)
BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 (1953)
HAYDN Four Piano Trios (1952)
MOZART Piano Trios, complete (1953)
SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 (1951)
Jean Fournier, violin
Antonio Janigro, cello
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano
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GLAZUNOV Les ruses d’amour
MOZART Symphony No. 40
J. STRAUSS II Emperor Waltz
WAGNER Tannhäuser – Fest March
WAGNER Lohengrin – Prelude to Act 3
GOLDMARK The Queen of Sheba – Ballet Music
STOCK Symphonic Waltz, Op. 8
Studio recordings, 1929-1930
Total duration: 67:21
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Frederick Stock
MOZART Symphony No. 38, “Prague”
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, “The Great”
R. STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra
TCHAIKOVSKY Nutcracker Suite
plus music by Sibelius, Saint-Saëns, Weber, Ippolitov-Ivanov
Studio recordings, 1939-40
Total duration: 2hr 26:05
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Frederick Stock
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto
MOZART 2 Concert Rondos (K.382, K.386) (download-only)
Recorded in stereo, 1957, 1959 & 1960
Total duration: 89:42 (CD: 72:39)
Géza Anda, piano
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin
Pierre Fournier, cello
Ferenc Fricsay, conductor