Mozart: German Dances

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Cat No: 8550412

Release Date: 12 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030504127

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756- 1791) Twelve German Dances/Zwolf deutsche Tanze/Douze danses allemandes, K.586 Thirteen German Dances/Dreizehn deutsche Tanze/Treize dansesallemandes, K. 600, K. 602 & K. 605Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of acourt musician who, in the year of his youngest child's birth, published aninfluential book on violin-playing. Leopold Mozart rose to occupy the positionof Vice-Kapellmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg, but sacrificed his own creativecareer to that of his son, in whom he detected early signs of precociousgenius. With the indulgence of his patron, he was able to undertake extendedconcert tours of Europe in which his son and his older daughter Nannerl wereable to astonish audiences. The boy played both the keyboard and the violin andcould improvise and soon write down his own compositions.Childhood that had brought signal success was followed by a lesssatisfactory period of adolescence largely in Salzburg, under the patronage ofa new and less sympathetic Archbishop. Mozart, like his father, foundopportunities far too limited at home, while chances of travel were nowrestricted. In 1777, when leave of absence was not granted, he gave upemployment in Salzburg to seek a future elsewhere, but neither Mannheim norParis, both musical centres of some importance, had anything for him. HisMannheim connections, however, brought a commission for an opera in Munich in1781, and after its successful staging he was summoned by his patron to Vienna.There Mozart's dissatisfaction with his position resulted in a quarrel with theArchbishop and dismissal from his service.The last ten years of Mozart's life were spent in Vienna in precariousindependence of both patron and immediate paternal advice, a situationaggravated by an imprudent marriage. Initial success in the opera-house and asa performer was followed, as the decade went on, by increasing financialdifficulties. By the time of his death in December 1791, however, his fortunesseemed about to change for the better, with the success of the German opera TheMagic Flute, and the possibility of increased patronage.In Vienna Mozart found some intermittent favour at court. The onIypositive expression of imperial approval came after the death of Gluck in 1787,when he was appointed Royal and Imperial Court Composer at a salary of 800gulden, to Gluck's stipend of 2000. In a letter to his sister he expressed withhis usual optimism his belief that the sum granted him would soon be increased.As he later remarked, it was too much for what he did, and too little for whathe could do, since the position carried no duties, except the possibleoccasional provision of dance music, for which there had always been somedemand.Mozart's dances, the earliest of which were written in childhood,consist principally of Minuets, Landler or German dances and Contredanses. TheTwelve German Dances of K. 586 were written in Vienna in December 1789.Although varied in instrumentatio
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