Mozart: Divertimenti, K. 131 And K. 287

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Cat No: 8550996

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099599627

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Divertimento in B Flat Major, K. 287 Divertimento in D Major, K. 131 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of a court musician who, in the year of his youngest child's birth, published an influential book on violin-playing. Leopold Mozart rose to occupy the position of Vice-Kapellmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg, but sacrificed his own creative career to that of his son, in whom he detected early signs of precocious genius. With the indulgence of his patron, he was able to undertake extended concert tours of Europe in which his son and his eider daughter Nannerl were able to astonish audiences. The boy played both the keyboard and the violin and could improvise and soon write down his own compositions. Childhood that had brought Mozart signal success was followed by a less satisfactory period of adolescence largely in Salzburg, under the patronage of a new and less sympathetic Archbishop. Like his father, Mozart found opportunities far too limited at home, while chances of travel were now restricted. In 1777, when leave of absence was not granted, he gave up employment in Salzburg to seek a future elsewhere, but neither Mannheim nor Paris, both musical centres of some importance, had anything for him. His Mannheim connections, however, brought a commission for an opera in Munich in 1781, but after its successful staging he was summoned by his patron to Vienna. There his dissatisfaction with his position resulted in a quarrel with the Archbishop and dismissal from his service. The last ten years of Mozart's life were spent in Vienna in precarious independence of both patron and immediate paternal advice, a situation aggravated by an imprudent marriage. Initial success in the opera-house and as a performer was followed, as the decade went on, by increasing financial difficulties. By the time of his death in December 1791, however, his fortunes seemed about to change for the better, with the success of the German opera The Magic Flute, and the possibility of increased patronage.Mozart's Divertimento in B flat major, K. 287, is scored for two horns and strings and was completed by 13th June 1777 in time for the celebration of the name-day of Gräfin Antonia Lodron in Salzburg. This was the second occasion on which Mozart had provided a serenade for the Countess and the work is, in consequence, commonly known as the Zweite Ladronische Nachtmusik (Second Lodron Serenade). The Salzburg court official Joseph Ferdinand von Schiedenhofen recorded in his diary a visit to the Mozarts on the afternoon of 13th June, when the music had been rehearsed, to be performed for the Countess three days later. In the autumn Mozart left Salzburg on his journey to Mannheim and Paris. In Munich in October he was rash enough to invite the court orchestra violinist Dupreille, a pupil of Tartini, to join him and other friends in chamber music, but was sadly disappointed when Dupreille lost his place every
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