Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 36, 33 And 27

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Cat No: 8550264

Release Date: 12 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030502642

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Symphonies Nos. 36 'Linz', 33 and 27Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of acourt musician, Leopold Mozart, author in the same year of an important book onviolin-playing and later Vice-Kapellmeister to the ruling Archbishop ofSalzburg, in whose service he spent his entire career. Leopold Mozart was quickto perceive the exceptional musical gifts of his son and saw it as hisGod-given duty to devote himself to fostering them, providing him with soundmusical training and a good general education.Mozart spent much of his childhood travelling to the major musicalcentres of Europe, where he amazed those who heard him by his musicalprecocity, performing at the keyboard with his eider sister, Nannerl, the onlyother surviving child of his father's marriage. Journeys to Italy involvedcommissions for opera, but the death of the old Archbishop and succession of amuch less sympathetic prelate in 1772 cur1ailed travel, while adolescence in Salzburgbrought its own dissatisfactions. Mozart thought he deserved something better,an opinion in which his father heartily concurred.In an effort to find a more congenial position, Mozart left Salzburg in1777, spending time at Mannheim where he made friends with some of themusicians employed in w hat was then one of the most famous orchestras inEurope, and moving thereafter to the original goal of his journey, Paris.France, however, proved disappointing, and by the beginning of 1779 he was backagain in Salzburg, reinstated in the service of the Archbishop, but chafingunder the restrictions of his position and the lack of wider opportunity. In the later months of 1780 Mozart was permitted to travel to Munichfor the preparation of a new opera, Idomeneo,commissioned through his Mannheim friends by the Elector of Bavaria, who nowheld court there. From Munich, after successful performances of the opera inJanuary 1781, Mozart was summoned by his patron to Vienna, where his positionin the household of the Archbishop seemed to deny him the manifoldopportunities of a brilliant career that Vienna appeared to otter. A quarrelwith his patron resulted in ignominious dismissal and a final career of tenyears in Vienna which brought initial success. Mozart established himself as acomposer of opera, at first for the new German opera and then for the Italianopera to which the Emperor had been compelled to return, with Le nozze di Figaro in 1786 and DonGiovanni in 1787, the year of his father's death. He organised subscriptionconcerts, at many of which he appeared as soloist in new piano concertos of hiscomposition, and attracted many pupils. His marriage in 1782 to an impecunlouscousin of the future composer Carl Maria von Weber brought its own problems andhe was frequently in financial difficulty in his last years, although there wasa sign of change of fortune in the great popularity of his last German opera, Die Zauberflote, which was playing in asuburban theatre at the time
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