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 Violin Concerto No. 4
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
Live recordings, 1947/49
Total duration: 68:30
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Boston Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Serge Koussevitzky
Bell Telephone Orchestra
conducted by Donald Voorhees
MOZART String Quintet No. 4
FRANCK Piano Quintet
BRAHMS String Sextet No. 2
MENDELSSOHN String Octet
Stereo studio recordings, 1961
Total duration: 1hr 59:05
Leonard Pennario piano
Jascha Heifetz - Israel Baker violins
Arnold Belnick - Joseph Stepansky violins
William Primrose - Virginia Majewski violas
Gregor Piatigorsky - Gabor Rejto cellos
HAYDN Symphony No. 100 'Military'
HAYDN Symphony No. 101 'Clock'
HAYDN Symphony No. 104 'London'
MOZART Symphony No. 35 'Haffner'
MOZART Symphony No. 38 'Prague'
MOZART Symphony No. 39
MOZART Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'
Studio & live recordings, 1956-1960
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Orchestre Radio National de France
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
conducted by Jascha Horenstein
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BACH-SCHOENBERG Two Chorale Preludes
HAYDN Symphony No. 94, “Surprise”
MOZART Overtures to Le Nozze di Figaro and La Clemenza di Tito
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5
Recorded in 1929
Total duration: 69:02
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Jascha Horenstein
HAYDN Symphony No. 101 'Clock'
MOZART Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'
Studio recordings, 1956 & 1957
Total duration: 56:54
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Jascha Horenstein
HAYDN Symphony No. 100 'Military'
MOZART Symphony No. 35 'Haffner'
MOZART Symphony No. 38 'Prague'
Studio & live recordings, 1956 & 1960
Total duration: 65:25
Orchestre Radio National de France
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Vienna Symphony Orchestra