Mozart: Piano Duets, Vol. 1

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Cat No: 8553518

Release Date: 04 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099451826

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Born in Salzburg in 1756, WolfgangAmadeus Mozart was the younger surviving child of Leopold Mozart who, in thesame year, published his Violin School, a work that was to attract wideattention. By 1763 Leopold had been promoted to the position of deputy Kapellmeister atthe court of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, whose service he had enteredtwenty years before as a violinist. By the 1760s, however, he had realised thepotential abilities of his two children and particularly of his son. He nowdevoted himself to his necessary duties and to the education of his children,virtually abandoning further composition. There followed a series of concerttours with Nannerl and Wolfgang, at first, in 1762, to Munich and then toVienna. The following year brought the most extended of these tours in journeysthat took the family to major cities in Southern Germany, to Brussels, Parisand eventually to London, before a slow return to Salzburg, which they reachedagain at the end of November 1766.It was during the period of some eighteenmonths that the Mozarts spent in London that Wolfgang wrote his Sonata in Cmajor, K. 19d, which he seemingly performed with his sister at a concerton 13th May 1765 at Hickford's Great Room in Brewer Street, an event advertisedas 'For the benefit of Miss Mozart of Thirteen, and Master Mozart of EightYears of Age. Prodigies of Nature...With all the Overtures of this little Boy'sown composition ...Concerto on the Harpsichord by the little Composer and hisSister, each single and both together...' The sonata was apparently intendedfor a two-manual instrument by Burkat Shudi (Tschudi), since duet performanceon a single-manual instrument brings some conflict between the right hand ofthe player of the lower part and the left hand of the upper player. The Mozartchildren played on a Shudi harpsichord newly built for Frederick the Great andnot yet despatched to Potsdam. The first movement, inevitably derivative,follows convention in its opening Allegro with a repeated exposition anddevelopment, before the return of material in a final recapitulation. Thesecond movement is a Menuetto, with an F major Trio. The sonataends duly with a Rondo in which the necessary episodes of the formappear with clear definition. These culminate in a sudden pause, a brief Adagioand the final return of the principal theme.The Sonata in D major, K. 381 waswritten in Salzburg in 1772, conjecturally dated to the beginning of that year.Leopold Mozart and his son had returned in December from a second visit toItaly, where Wolfgang's dramatic serenata Ascanio in Alba had beenperformed, a commission from the Empress Maria Theresia for the marriage of herson, Archduke Ferdinand, governor of Milan. Their return to Salzburg coincidedwith the death of the Archbishop, who was to be replaced by a less indulgentpatron, although a further journey to Milan for a new opera for the court wasunavoidably permitted. In the course of the year Archbishop H
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