Mozart: Serenades And Divertimenti

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Cat No: 8557023

Release Date: 12 January 2005

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 747313202324

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Eine kleine Nachtmusik Divertimento in F major Serenata NotturnaAs a child Mozart had enjoyed phenomenalsuccess, travelling through Europe and, with his sisterNannerl, performing for kings and queens, the nobilityand others able to afford the spectacle. His fatherLeopold Mozart, Vice-Kapellmeister to the Archbishopof Salzburg, had taken good care of his only survivingson's education and musical training, and had managedhis career at the expense of his own.In December 1771 the Mozarts' patron, theArchbishop, had died and was succeeded early in thefollowing year by a less sympathetic churchman, thereformist Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, a son ofthe Imperial Vice-Chancellor. The new Archbishopshared the feelings of the Imperial family on theactivities of the Mozarts, who seemed to bring no crediton their employers by \travelling around like beggars.The concert tours that had brought some profit anddistinction to the family were to be curtailed, andMozart was for a few years to be more or less confinedto the narrow limits of Salzburg, in a position that heand his father found quite unworthy of his genius.Nevertheless in Salzburg there was work to be done,music to be written and played.In 1777 Mozart was to set out, accompanied onlyby his mother, to seek his fortune in Mannheim and inParis, an abortive journey, during the course of whichhis mother died. Mannheim in particular, with itsvirtuoso orchestra, provided a stimulus to his work.Before this, however, Salzburg had provided theoccasion for a number of compositions, including theSerenata notturna and the two Divertimenti sometimesknown as the Lodron Nightmusic, occasional pieces tocelebrate the name-day in 1776 and 1777 of CountessAntonia Lodron on 13th June. The Countess, bornArco, a name we meet in the accounts of Mozart's laterdismissal from the Archbishop's service in 1781, wasthe wife of the hereditary marshal of the court, and aleading patroness of music in Salzburg. The Mozartswere on visiting terms, however deferentially, andLeopold Mozart and his son had joined the Lodron'sparty at a fancy dress ball in February, 1776, LeopoldMozart as a porter and his son as a barber's boy.It was during the winter that Mozart had written theSerenata notturna, K. 239, completed in January, 1776,and clearly designed for some Salzburg social occasion.The work is scored for a concerti no of single strings, twoviolins, a viola and a double bass, and a body of ripienostrings and timpani, an arrangement which, bar thedrums, must remind us of the form of the Baroqueconcerto grosso.The first movement of the Serenata is a statelyMarch, in which the smaller and larger groups ofinstruments are contrasted. There follows a Minuet, anda Trio played by the concertino, leading, after therepetition of the Minuet, to a final Rondo that includesepisodes of possible topical reference. Within theframework of the repeated principal theme comes asolemn Adagio, the music of a country dance
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