Mozart: String Quintets, K. 174 And K. 155

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Cat No: 8553103

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 730099410328

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) String Quintets Vol. 1 String Quintet in B Flat Major, K. 174 Trio (Erste, verworfene Fassung des Menuett-Trios / First, discarded version of the Trio) Allegro (Erste, verworfene Fassung des Finalsatzes / First, discarded version of the Finale) String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 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 elder 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. The first of Mozart's string quintets, the Quintet in B flat major, K. 174, was written in 1773. On 13th March he and his father had returned to Salzburg after a successful journey to Italy, the third they had undertaken and the last they were able to enjoy. There he had fulfilled a commission to write his opera Lucio Silla for Milan and had composed six string quartets. Salzburg, however, proved now less congenial, with the accession of Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo, a nobleman of progressive ideas but more exacting standards from his court than his predecessor. Michael Haydn, younger brother of Joseph Haydn, Kapellmeister at Esterháiza and Konzertmeister at this time of the Salzburg court
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