Mozart

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Mozart – String Quartets dedicated to Haydn
String Quartet No. 16 in E Flat Major, K.428/421b: IV. Allegro vivace From Mozart – String Quartets dedicated to Haydn (2014) Released by Harmonia Mundi Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E Flat Major, K.428/421b: IV. Allegro vivaceThe sincerest form
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Devotional Simplicity
Mozart: Ave verum corpus
Mozart’s relationship to church music has been compared to a child’s attitude towards eating sprouts and spinach. That attitude was clearly conditioned by his troubled interaction with Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, who was appointed Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg in 1771. This
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Mozart: Violin Sonatas Nos. 27, 32 and 35 (Tetzlaff, Vogt)
Violin Sonata No. 27 in G Major, K. 379 Adagio From Mozart: Violin Sonatas Nos. 27, 32 and 35 (Tetzlaff, Vogt) (2012) Released by Ondine / Naxos Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 27 in G Major, K. 379 – AdagioThe bar-by-bar
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Mozart: Adagios & Fugues after Bach
Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 From Mozart: Adagios & Fugues after Bach (2014) Released by Harmonia Mundi Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546It has too often been overlooked that, between Bach’s death (1750) and the triumphant
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The Miracles of Salzburg
Maria Plain and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa Brevis, K. 192 “Credo” Leopold Mozart and his wife Anna Maria Walburga had seven children, of whom only two survived infancy. Being good Catholics and all, they continued to sponsor Holy Masses for their dead children.
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Mozart: Keyboard Music, Vols. 5 & 6 (Kristian Bezuidenhout – Fortepiano)
Mozart: Sonata in C major, K.309 III. Rondeau: Allegretto grazioso From Mozart: Keyboard Music, Vols. 5 & 6 (Kristian Bezuidenhout – Fortepiano) (2014) Released by Harmonia Mundi Mozart: Sonata in C major, K.309 – III. Rondeau: Allegretto grazioso“Few players coax
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A Little Nibble of Mozart and Something More
When you’re in Austria, you’re assaulted by images of Mozart – not Mozart the Composer but Mozart the Chocolate. The Mirabell Chocolate Factory in Salzburg is the creator of the famous Mozartkugel. It’s a little ball of milk chocolate, filled
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Living with the Mozarts!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453, “Allegretto” The Mozart household in Vienna was frequently described as a place of controlled chaos. Joachim Daniel Preiser, an actor from the Royal Theater of Copenhagen, described an afternoon with Mozart
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