Mozart: Flute Quartets Nos. 1- 4

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Cat No: 8550438

Release Date: 12 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 4891030504387

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (I 756 - 1791)Flute QuartetsQuartet In D Major, K. 285Quartet In G Major, K. 285aQuartet In C Major, K. Anh. 171 (258b)Quartet In A Major, K. 298Born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of a musician who was later appointed Vice-Kapellmeister to the ruling Archbishop, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart won international fame as a child prodigy. Adolescence in Salzburg proved less satisfactory, particularly after the death of the old Archbishop and the succession of a new patron who showed much less indulgence to members of his household. Leopold Mozart had early realised the exceptional gifts of his son and had made it his business to develop them to the detriment of his own career, but father and son both understood that provincial Salzburg was far too limited in its opportunities. Eventually, in 1781, during the course of a visit to Vienna in the entourage of the Archbishop, Mozart quarrelled with his employer and secured his dismissal. The remaining ten years of his life were spent in Vienna, where he enjoyed initial success and later more variable fortune, in relative independence of his father and of a patron. He died in December 1791.In 1777 Mozart's impatience with the limitations of Salzburg had grown to such a pitch that it seemed he must seek his fortune elsewhere. The Archbishop refused permission for Leopold Mozart and his son to travel abroad, although, of course, he was happy to accept their resignation, should they wish it. Mozart himself chose this course, while his father, with greater prudence, stayed in Salzburg, where he was Deputy Kapellmeister. The journey was to take the young musician to Augsburg, Munich, Mannheim and finally to Paris. In this he was accompanied by his mother, a woman of simpler sensitivities, who had little control over her son's wilder enthusiasms, one of which, the beginning of a romance with Aloysia Weber, a young singer in Mannheim and one of the daughters of an unimportant member of the Electoral musical establishment, proved distinctly alarming. Mozart later married a younger sister of Aloysia Weber, when eventually free of paternal control in Vienna.'Mannheim, where the Elector Palatine had his court, had one of the best orchestras Europe had ever seen, in the words of an English visitor, Charles Burney, 'an army of generals'. Mozart and his mother reached the city on 30th October 1777 and remained there until 14th March in the following year. They were well received by Christian Cannabich, the director of the orchestra, and by the leading musicians at the Electoral court. Mozart became particularly friendly with the flautist Johann Baptist Wendling, who introduced him to the rich amateur flautist De Jean, a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company, who offered 200 gulden for three short simple concertos and a couple of flute quartets. Leopold Mozart found the news of some comfort. With this money some at least of the expenses of what he regarded as a disastrously long stay in
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