Mozart: Salzburg Symphonies

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Cat No: 8550108

Release Date: 12 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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No of Units: 1

Barcode: 4005294501086

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)Divertimento in D Major, K. 136AllegroAndantePrestoDivertimento in B Flat Major, K. 137AndanteAllegro di moltoAllegro assaiDivertimento in F Major, K. 138AllegroAndantePrestoDivertimento in D Major, K. 205Largo - AllegroMenuettoAdagioMenuettoFinale: PrestoIn 1772 Mozart wasagain at home in Salzburg. His first journeys abroad, at the age of six, hadbrought him great fame as an infant prodigy, and with his sister he hadperformed w hat seemed miracles of technique and musicianship for one so young.An extended tour took the Mozart family away from Salzburg for three and a halfyears, during which time they attracted the curiosity of audiences in Paris,London, Holland and throughout Germany. Late in 1769 Mozart left Salzburg withhis father for his first visit to Italy and there he enjoyed similar success,now being able to fulfil a commission for an opera, Mitridate, re di Ponto, which was performed in Milan onBoxing Day, 1770. After five months In Salzburg, Mozart returned once again toItaly, where his Serenata, Ascanio in Alba,was to be performed for the wedding of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand andMaria Beatrice d'Este, a princess of Modena.Mozart and hisfather returned to Salzburg once more in the middle of December, 1771. Nextyear, before they set out again for Italy, the English musician Dr. Burney wasreporting that Wolfgang Amadeus was one more example of \early fruit being moreextraordinary than excellent. There were others ready to agree that Mozart'searly virtuosity had led to nothing, and in practical terms they may have beenright. In late December the Mozart's patron, the Archbishop of Salzburg, Countvon Schrattenbach, had died, to be succeeded by Count Hieronymus von Colloredo,a zealous but unsympathetic ruler, who was to employ Molart for ten more yearsat his court, until a quarrel led to his dismissal in 1781.The last decade ofMozart's life was spent in precarious independence in Vienna, with earlysuccess, but no secure position and no adequate patronage. As a boy he had beenfamous. As a young man, however successful he might appear on brief journeysabroad, at home in provincial Salzburg he had felt slighted and undervalued,while the establishment in Vienna seemed to have nothing to offer that might match the ambitions thathe and his father had nurtured.The three so-calledDivertimenti, K. 136, K. 137 and K. 138, sometimes known with rather moreaccuracy as the Salzburg Symphonies, have about them more of the latter thanthe former. A Divertimento was generally in a series of five movements andthese three-movement works conform to the model of the Italian form ofsymphony. Since they were written in Salzburg early in 1772, they may well havebeen intended to serve a symphonic purpose during the coming journey to Italy,when wind parts could have been added, as required. They precede, in any case,a series of string quartets written in Italy later in the same year, and maythemselves be played as quartets, alt
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