Mozart

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Gurn Blanston

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on June 01, 2009, 05:27:48 AM
Some of my best friends are doofs . . . .

We're all doofi, and I am your king! :)

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karlhenning

I'm looking out for watery tarts!

Dr. Dread

HOLY CRAP! GURN CHANGED HIS AVATAR!!!

DavidRoss

Quote from: MN Dave on June 01, 2009, 06:01:51 AM
HOLY CRAP! GURN CHANGED HIS AVATAR!!!
I want to see one with Haydn riding his lawn tractor!
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

karlhenning

Quote from: Robt W. GutmanUnpredictable, he could be winning—the diary of Johann Karl, Count von Zinzendorf, spoke of a "child of spirit, lively, charming"—or he could treat with people de haut en bas: when a German prince, meaning well, soothing invited him to forget the presence of his august auditors and put aside all nervousness, Wolfgang reacted by confidently settling himself at the harpsichord and announcing that he had already played before the German Empress.  Indeed, at the Imperial court, just before starting a concerto by Wagenseil, he had called out to this famous composer to come forward to turn pages.

[ Mozart: A Cultural Biography, p. 61 ]

Josquin des Prez

Karl's new avatar is full of win.

karlhenning

Quote from: Gurn Blanston on June 01, 2009, 05:09:55 AM
Can't remember the name OTTOMH, but it is the one that describes Mozart as going into a trancelike state when he composes, and that from that point it is like "automatic writing" until a finished fair copy is completed. I'll look it up tonight and post it. In any case, within a few years of the publication of it, this myth was totally incorporated into the biography. ::)

8)

Under present circs, one must be careful about use of the m.-word in connection with Gottlieb.  But after all, since almost the beginning George Washington's cherry tree has happily been known for a myth, but no one yet suggests that he did not really serve as first president of these United States.

Herman

I just listened to the quinttet K 407 for (French) horn, violin, two (!) violas and cello in E flat major. Have I ever heard this piece before? If so I do not recall. It's pretty much another one of those horn concertos WAM wrote for the friend of his, except its a little less rambunctious. Very nice middle mvt.

karlhenning

Quote from: Herman on July 14, 2009, 12:34:49 PM
I just listened to the quinttet K 407 for (French) horn, violin, two (!) violas and cello in E flat major. Have I ever heard this piece before? If so I do not recall. It's pretty much another one of those horn concertos WAM wrote for the friend of his, except its a little less rambunctious. Very nice middle mvt.

Gosh, I don't know if I've ever heard that!

Herman

Quote from: Herman on July 14, 2009, 12:34:49 PM
I just listened to the quinttet K 407 for (French) horn, violin, two (!) violas and cello in E flat major. Have I ever heard this piece before? If so I do not recall. It's pretty much another one of those horn concertos WAM wrote for the friend of his, except its a little less rambunctious. Very nice middle mvt.

Forgot to mention: the hornist was Franticek Langweil plus the Panocha Quartet on an old (AAD) disc with the Clarinet Qt and the Oboe Qt

Herman

Listened to the Prague Quartet perform a great, vigorous version of WAM's last string quartet in F major, 590. (Supraphon Archives) Great violist.

snyprrr

...oh, I know I'm going to get raked over the coals for this one, but seriously... I've been listening to these SQs lately, and I just noticed something that I really thought I heard, that struck me:

Does Mozart have a tendency to end mvmts. abruptly, or, without any ado? I seem to recall the last SQ ending very nonchalantly, and also another mvmt. in another SQ (don't remember).

Mozart

The d minor one has an interesting ending...
"I am the musical tree, eat of my fruit and your spirit shall rejoiceth!"
- Amadeus 6:26

Herman

Quote from: snyprrr on July 18, 2009, 01:56:47 PM
...oh, I know I'm going to get raked over the coals for this one, but seriously... I've been listening to these SQs lately, and I just noticed something that I really thought I heard, that struck me:

Does Mozart have a tendency to end mvmts. abruptly, or, without any ado? I seem to recall the last SQ ending very nonchalantly, and also another mvmt. in another SQ (don't remember).

You're probably, in your usual chaotic way, referring to the K590 quartet, in which the first mvt ends quite softly, rather than with a couple of chords. This is also the quartet that starts with a unisono, which you queried as unusual, whereas it's really quite normal.

As I said before, the advice is: eat more, think less. Or rather: just listen to the music and listen to it again.

Opus106

Two new pieces for piano have now been attributed to Mozart. No more details until the second of August.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8165645.stm
Regards,
Navneeth

karlhenning

I wrote one of them; and I just want to take this moment to say how very pleased and honored I am at this attribution to Mozart.

DavidRoss

Quote from: opus106 on July 23, 2009, 10:19:01 AM
Two new pieces for piano have now been attributed to Mozart. No more details until the second of August.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8165645.stm

So are you suggesting that Mozart actually wrote Take the A Train and Time Out?
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

karlhenning

Quote from: facehugger on April 06, 2007, 02:37:52 PM
i called it. this thread is mine. mine, i tell you!

anyway, mozart is awesome, no?

Yes, the sublimely non-fraudulent Mozart is, indeed, awesome.

Haffner

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 28, 2009, 09:45:20 AM
Yes, the sublimely non-fraudulent Mozart is, indeed, awesome.



Aw, shucks, he (or the person who wrote his stuff ;)), was just swell!

Herman