Release Date: 12 January 2000
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4891030504134
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: MOZART
Description
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)Serenade in D Major K. 185 & March K. 189Serenade in D Major K. 203 & March K. 237Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of a courtmusician who, in the year of his youngest child's birth, published aninfluential book on violin-playing. Leopold Mozart rose to occupy the positionof Vice-Kapellmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg, but sacrificed his owncreative career to that of his son, in whom he detected early signs ofprecocious genius. With the indulgence of his patron, he was able to undertakeextended concert tours of Europe in which his son and his eider sister Nannerlwere able to astonish audiences. The boy played both the keyboard and the violinand could improvise and soon write down his own compositions.Childhood that had brought signal success was followed by a less satisfactoryperiod of adolescence largely in Salzburg, under the patronage of a new and lesssympathetic Archbishop. Mozart, like his father, found opportunities far toolimited at home, while chances of travel were now restricted. In 1777, whenleave of absence was not granted, he gave up employment in Salzburgto seek afuture elsewhere, but neither Mannheim nor Paris, both musical centres of someimportance, had anything for him. His Mannheim connections, however, brought acommission for an opera in Munich in 1781, and after its successful staging hewas summoned by his patron to Vienna. There Mozart's dissatisfaction with hisposition resulted in a quarrel with the Archbishop and dismissal from hisservice.The last ten years of Mozart's life were spent in Vienna in precariousindependence of both patron and immediate paternal advice, a situationaggravated by an imprudent marriage. Initial success in the opera-house and as aperformer was followed, as the decade went on, by increasing financialdifficulties. By the time of his death in December 1791, however, his fortunesseemed about to change for the better, with the success of the German opera TheMagic Flute, and the possibility of increased patronage.The serenade in the later eighteenth century was an essentially occasionalcomposition, designed for evening entertainment or celebration. These works weregenerally in a number of movements and proved particularly popular in Salzburg,where Leopold Mozart himself had contributed notably and prolifically to thegenre. A serenade would normally open and close with a march and include asonata-form movement, two slow movements and two or three minuets. Originallyintended for outdoor performance and therefore entrusted principally to windinstruments, the form came to include indoor chamber or orchestral music of asimilar character.It is generally thought that the Serenade in D major, K. 185, waswritten in July and early August 1773 as Finalmusik for the end of the academicyear in Salzburg, where Judas Thaddaus von Andretter, son of the Salzburg WarCouncillor, was completing his year in Logic at the Benedictine University. Itwas the cus
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
The Brahms Trio
Roman Fediurko
London Symphony Orchestra; Rafael Sanz-Espert
