Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29, 30 And 38

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Cat No: 8550119

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030501195

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)Symphony in A Major, K. 201 Symphony in D Major, K. 202 Symphony in D Major, K. 504 'Prague'Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, thesecond surviving child and onIy surviving son of Leopold Mozart, a violinist and composerin the service of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. The boy was taught by his father, whoin 1756 had published his famous book on violin-playing and enjoyed something of areputation both for this and for his wider cultural interests, typical of the newgeneration of musicians of the mid-eighteenth century. By the age of six Mozart had shownsuch obvious ability that his father resolved to dedicate himself to the furthering ofwhat seemed a God-given talent. Tours followed, to Munich, Vienna and the imperial palaceat Schonbrunn, to Pressburg (the modern Bratislava), and in 1763 to Paris and to London.The greater part of Mozart's childhood passed in this way, as he and his elder sisterAnna-Maria performed at the keyboard, and the boy, at least, set himself to theconcomitant experience of composition, learning eagerly not only from his father but fromthe very distinguished musicians that he met on his travels.In 1769 Mozart, accompanied by his father, made the first ofhis three extended visits to Italy, honoured by the Pope with the title Knight of theGolden Spur and instructed in Bologna by the doyen of Italian composers, Padre Martini. Hewas to return to Italy in the autumn of 1771 for the performance of his stage-work Ascanio in Alba in Milan, where the opera Lucio Silla was commissioned for the following year,and where hopes of permanent employment at the court of the imperial governor, a son ofthe Empress, proved illusory. The decade was to bring Mozart little satisfaction. He andhis father continued to entertain material ambitions that Salzburg could never satisfy,particularly since the death of the old Archbishop in December, 1771, and the successionof a more modern churchman, sympathetic to the reforms that Joseph II was to institute inecclesiastical affairs.In 1777 Mozart left the archiepiscopal service, the only way hecould now secure the freedom to travel as he wished, while his father chose to retain thenecessary security of his employment at Salzburg, where, since 1763, he had held theposition of Vicekapellmeister, the summit of his career. Accompanied by his mother, ahomely woman who exercised no authority over her son, he visited Munich, spent time withhis father's relations in Augsburg, dawdled hopefully in Mannheim, where his associationwith the young singer AIoysia Weber suggested dreams of successful concert tours together,and finally reached Paris. He found France and the French aristocracy little to his likingand failed to make the kind of impression that his earlier visits as an infant prodigy hadexcited. In June his mother died, and in September he began to make his way slowly back toSalzburg, where he was to be reinstated, remaining a reluctant servant of the
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