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www.britannica Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, symphony by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Composed in 1788, it is one of only two symphonies he wrote in minor keys and reflects his interest in the artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress), in which darker and stronger emotions were showcased. The year 1788 was a dark one for Mozart. Viennese audiences were proving less eager to hear his concerts and recitals, bills were piling up, and his infant daughter Theresia had just died. Letters to friends reveal that he was finding it difficult to look beyond the shadows, and some have suggested that this fact influenced this unusually anxious symphony. Yet there is more at work here than one man’s daily sorrows. However, it is only one of three symphonies Mozart would write this summer, apparently at the eventually abandoned prospect of a concert tour to London.

www.britannica Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K 331, three-movement sonata for solo piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written 1781–83. It is best known for its third movement, written “in the Turkish style,” which is often heard in transcriptions for instruments other than the piano. Britannica Quiz Lifting the Curtain on Composers: Fact or Fiction? Ludwig van Beethoven was married six times. Mozart composed about 20 solo piano sonatas, from roughly 1775 through the summer of 1789. The sonata’s first movement, “Andante grazioso,” is a theme and six variations. Betsy Schwarm www.britannica Requiem in D Minor, K 626, requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, left incomplete at his death on December 5, 1791. Until the late 20th century the work was most often heard as it had been completed by Mozart’s student Franz Xaver Süssmayr. Later completions have since been offered, and the most favourably received among these is one by American musicologist Robert D. Levin. Britannica Quiz A Study of Composers In which country was the composer Claude Debussy born? According to a contract that Mozart signed and an attorney witnessed, the requiem was commissioned by the Count Franz von Walsegg-Stuppach. At the time, Mozart was deeply engaged with the writing of two operas: The Magic Flute and La clemenza di Tito (“The Clemency of Titus”).

en.m.wikipedia The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro] ( The opera is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas.[1] Composition history[edit] The opera was the first of three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte; their later collaborations were Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais's play and brought it to Da Ponte, who turned it into a libretto in six weeks, rewriting it in poetic Italian and removing all of the original's political references. In particular, Da Ponte replaced Figaro's climactic speech against inherited nobility with an equally angry aria against unfaithful wives.[4] The libretto was approved by the Emperor before any music was written by Mozart.[5] Performance history[edit] Figaro premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786, with a cast listed in the "Roles" section below. Roles[edit] Notes

www.britannica The Marriage of Figaro, Italian Le nozze di Figaro, comic opera in four acts by Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte), which premiered in Vienna at the Burgtheater on May 1, 1786. Based on Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s 1784 play Le Mariage de Figaro, Mozart’s work remains a favourite in the operatic repertoire. Britannica Quiz Instrumentation: Fact or Fiction? A glockenspiel is a small piano. Background and context In 1782, as Mozart was making his way as a composer in Vienna, Count Orsini-Rosenberg, director of the Burgtheater (the imperial theatre), invited him to write an opera buffa. The Marriage of Figaro was in some ways an instant success. Partisans of Mozart’s rivals did their best to spoil the early performances. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. Betsy Schwarm Cast and vocal parts Setting and story summary Act I Dr.

en.m.wikipedia Don Giovanni is generally regarded as one of Mozart's supreme achievements and one of the greatest operas of all time, and it has proved a fruitful subject for writers and philosophers. A staple of the standard operatic repertoire, it is ninth on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas of the 2018–19 season. Critic Fiona Maddocks described it as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with libretti by Ponte".[2][3] Composition and premiere[edit] Original playbill for the Vienna premiere of Don Giovanni The Estates Theatre in Prague, the venue of the world premiere of Don Giovanni in 1787 The opera was commissioned as a result of the overwhelming success of Mozart's trip to Prague in January and February 1787.[4] The subject matter may have been chosen in consideration of the long history of Don Juan operas in Prague; the genre of eighteenth-century Don Juan opera originated in Prague.[5] Revision for Vienna[edit] Later performance traditions[edit] Roles[edit] Instrumentation[edit]

en.m.wikipedia Italian-language opera buffa by W. A. Mozart Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti[a] (All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an Italian-language opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte who also wrote Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. The short title, Così fan tutte, literally means "So do they all", using the feminine plural (tutte) to indicate women. Performance history[edit] The first performance of Mozart's setting took place at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 26 January 1790. The subject matter (see synopsis below) did not offend Viennese sensibilities of the time, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries was considered risqué, vulgar, and even immoral. After World War II it regained a place in the standard operatic repertoire and is now frequently performed.[9] Roles[edit] Instrumentation[edit] The instrumentation is as follows: Notes

www.britannica Exsultate, Jubilate, K 165, (Latin: “Rejoice, Be Glad”) three-movement motet (short sacred composition for voice sung with or without an orchestra) written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1773, when the composer was still in his teens. (A revision of the instrumentation and text followed in 1779 or 1780.) Britannica Quiz A Study of Music Which of these refers to a singing style? Employed from his earliest years by Count Sigismund von Schrattenbach, the prince-archbishop of Salzburg, young Mozart wrote much sacred music. The text, of unknown authorship, is rife with gladness, and Mozart ably captured this joyful mood in his music.

en.m.wikipedia Exsultate, jubilate (Exult, rejoice), K. 165, is a 1773 motet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. History[edit] Structure[edit] It has four sections: Exsultate jubilate – Allegro (F major)Fulget amica dies – Secco RecitativeTu virginum corona – Andante (A major)Alleluja – Molto allegro (F major) Although nominally for liturgical use, the motet has many features in common with Mozart's concert arias, such as those drawn from his operas.[8] Mozart also used elements of concerto form in this motet.[9] Libretto[edit] Written in Latin, the author of the text is unknown but may have been Rauzzini.[10] The text of the first Salzburg version differs in the first and second section.[2] The second Salzburg version differs from the first only in the first section.[2] Discography[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]

en.m.wikipedia The Magic Flute (German: Die Zauberflöte, pronounced [ˈdiː ˈt͡saʊ̯bɐˌfløːtə] ( listen)), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form during the time it was written that included both singing and spoken dialogue. In this opera, the Queen of the Night persuades Prince Tamino to rescue her daughter Pamina from captivity under the high priest Sarastro; instead, he learns the high ideals of Sarastro's community and seeks to join it. Composition[edit] Emanuel Schikaneder, librettist of Die Zauberflöte, shown performing in the role of Papageno. The opera was the culmination of a period of increasing involvement by Mozart with Schikaneder's theatrical troupe, which since 1789 had been the resident company at the Theater auf der Wieden. Premiere and reception[edit] The opera was premiered in Vienna on 30 September 1791 at the suburban Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden. Themes[edit] Act 1

www.redlandssymphony I. Allegro II. Andante ma adagio III. Rondo: Tempo di menuetto Composed 1774. The symphonies that bookend this evening’s program were two of the last works Mozart wrote in Salzburg before striking out on his own in Vienna. The Symphony No. 24 in B-flat Major (1773), likely conceived in Vienna before being finished in Salzburg, is like the best Viennese pastries: sweet, light, even frothy, but requiring great technical skill and no less the work of a master than other forms of musical haute cuisine. Written in the same key as the symphony and in the same city, the Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major (1774) was likely intended for one of the two bassoonists employed by Colloredo. Although composed in Vienna, Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1787) recalls the several serenades Mozart wrote while in Salzburg. The Symphony No. 29 in A major (1774) is the last of only three symphonies (out of over forty) in this key.

en.m.wikipedia Die Entführung aus dem Serail (German: [diː ʔɛntˈfyːʁʊŋ ʔaʊ̯s deːm zɛˈʁaɪ̯l]) (K. 384; The Abduction from the Seraglio; also known as Il Seraglio) is an opera Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Gottlieb Stephanie, based on Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The plot concerns the attempt of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedrillo, to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio of Pasha Selim. The work premiered on 16 July 1782 at the Vienna Burgtheater, with the composer conducting. Origins[edit] The company that first sponsored the opera was the Nationalsingspiel ("national Singspiel"), a pet project (1778–1783) of the Austrian emperor Joseph II. Composition[edit] Mozart received the libretto from Stephanie on 29 July 1781. It was around this time that Mozart articulated his views about the role of the composer and the librettist in the preparation of an opera. Character[edit]

en.m.wikipedia La clemenza di Tito (English: The Clemency of Titus), K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio. It was started after the bulk of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), the last opera that Mozart worked on, was already written. The work premiered on 6 September 1791 at the Estates Theatre in Prague. Background[edit] In 1791, the last year of his life, Mozart was already well advanced in writing Die Zauberflöte by July when he was asked to compose an opera seria. The commission came from the impresario Domenico Guardasoni, who lived in Prague and who had been charged by the Estates of Bohemia with providing a new work to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, as King of Bohemia. The libretto was edited into a more useful state by the court poet Caterino Mazzolà. It is not known what Leopold thought of the opera written in his honor. Performance history[edit] Roles[edit] Notes

en.m.wikipedia Lorenzo Da PonteEngraving by Michele Pekenino after Nathaniel Rogers Lorenzo Da Ponte[a] (born Emanuele Conegliano 10 March 1749 – 17 August 1838[4]) was an Italian, later American opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas, The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790). Early career[edit] Lorenzo Da Ponte was born Emanuele Conegliano in 1749 in Ceneda in the Republic of Venice (now Vittorio Veneto, Italy). Thanks to the bishop, the three Conegliano brothers studied at the Ceneda seminary. In 1773 Da Ponte moved to Venice, where he made a living as a teacher of Latin, Italian and French. Vienna and London[edit] Da Ponte moved to Gorizia (Görz), then part of Austria, where he lived as a writer, attaching himself to the leading noblemen and cultural patrons of the city. With the death of Austrian Emperor Joseph II in 1790, Da Ponte lost his patron.