Mozart, L.: Sinfonia Di Caccia / Sinfonia Pastorale

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Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 730099434720

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART, L.

Description
Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) Symphonies While he is best remembered today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang, Leopold Mozart was a prolific composer and enjoyed a reputation as a man of great intellect and discernment in his own lifetime, Born in Augsburg to a respectable family of tradesmen, Leopold Mozart sang in the choir of the Church of the Holy Cross as a child and was singled out by the clerics early on for a career in the Church, a sequence of events fairly commonplace for a talented youth in the eighteenth century. Leopold Mozart, however, had no intention of becoming a priest and once in Salzburg, to study at the University, abandoned his theological studies in favour of logic and jurisprudence. Inevitably, the financial assistance from Augsburg dried up and in the late 1730s - the precise date is uncertain - he broke off his studies and entered the service of Count Johann Baptist Thurn-Valsassina und Taxis as a valet and musician. For the next two decades Leopold Mozart's career resembled that of numerous professional musicians of the period. He composed, performed, taught and took a leading role in the musical life of his adopted city. In 1740 he 'etched with his own hand' a set of six Chamber and Church Sonatas for two violins and bass which he dedicated to his paternal beacon, the Count, whose beneficent influence had lifted him out of the harsh gloom of his distress and set him on the road to happiness A series of major sacred works followed, including a Passion Cantata Christus verurteilt (Christ Condemned), composed in 1743, which did much to smooth his path in the archiepiscopal court orchestra, which he joined in the same year. By 1744 he was also in charge of the choirboys' instruction in violin playing. Far from viewing this work as professional drudgery of the worst kind, he seems to have been an enthusiastic and gifted teacher and one, moreover, who approached the task very seriously, as future events would show. The birth of his seventh and last child, the second to survive, Wolfgang, on 27th January 1756- or more precisely, the awakening of the boy's musical genius several years later - dramatically changed the direction of Leopold Mozart's life. With few if any misgivings, he made the decision to sacrifice his own professional ambitions in order to dedicate himself to the task of educating his two prodigiously gifted children. By one of those odd coincidences, 1756 saw him achieve the other crowning glory of his life, the publication of his Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing, which brought him at once to the attention of the European musical intelligentsia, while in 1757 he was appointed Court Composer to the Archbishop of Salzburg. Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, the influential German theoretician and critic, reviewed the publication in 1757, writing. One has long desired a work of this kind but hardly dared to expect it. The sound and skilled virtuose, the rational and methodical teacher, the learned
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