Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 34, 35 And 39

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Cat No: 8550186

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030501867

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)Symphony No.34 in C major, K. 338Symphony No.35 in D major, K. 395'Haffner' Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K.543Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born inSalzburg in 1756, the youngest and second surviving child of Leopold Mozart, a violinistand composer in the service of the ruling Archbishop. The boy's phenomenal musical abilitywas apparent at an early age and his father devoted himself to fostering a talent that heregarded as a gift of God. With his elder sister Anna-Maria, known in the family asNannerl to his own Wolferl, the young Mozart travelled widely, under the close guidance ofhis father, playing in many of the major cities of Europe before kings and queans, and forthe curious.Childhood which had brought greatsuccess to Mozart as an infant prodigy was followed by adolescence in which he foundhimself increasingly tied to Salzburg, where opportunities were limited and where theaccession of a new Archbishop of reformist tendencies proved still more oppressive. In1777, when permission to travel was refused the family, Mozart, accompanied only by hismother, who was to die on the journey, set out for Paris, having resigned his position atthe archiepiscopal court. Visits to Munich and in particular to Mannheim, with its famousorchestra, broadened his musical experience and his acquaintance, but brought no offer ofemployment. Paris proved equally disappointing, and in 1778 he made his slow return aloneto Salzburg, to be grudgingly reinstated as a member of the Archbishop's musicalestablishment.Early in 1781 his opera Idomeneo, commissioned for Munich, was successfullymounted, and Mozart went from there to Vienna to join his patron. The imperial capitalseemed to offer every opportunity, but the demands of the Archbishop prevented Mozart frommaking use of the chances for prestige and profit that were there. A quarrel resulted inignominious dismissal and a subsequent career without adequate patronage but withconsiderable initial success in Vienna, where he could no longer rely on the presence ofhis father, who remained in Salzburg as Vice-Kapellmeister, a position he occupied untilhis death in 1787. Mozart's marriage to a girl without fortune did nothing to improvematters, as Vienna became used to his presence and financial difficulties grew. Hisearlier success in the opera-house seemed about to be renewed with the German opera TheMagic Flute, staged in a suburban theatre in 1791, when he died, after a short illness,the cause of which has given rise to much romantic speculation.Mozart wrote his first symphoniesduring the fifteen months he spent in London in 1764 and 1765, occupying himself in thisway during his father's illness which had forced the family to move to lodgings inChelsea. These early works naturally show the influence of Johann Christian Bach, whom hehad met in London. The last three symphonies were written in Vienna during the summer of1788 at a time when he found himself in some financial difficulty a
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