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Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus ((1756-1791)) |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as being one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture".
Born in Salzburg, then in the Holy Roman Empire and currently in Austria, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. At age five he was already competent on keyboard and violin, he had begun to compose, and he performed before European royalty. His father took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, he was a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position.
While visiting Vienna in 1781, Mozart was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He stayed in Vienna, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years there, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas. His Requiem was largely unfinished at the time of his death at age 35, the circumstances of which are uncertain and much mythologised. |
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ID: ACDBL081-2
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
The joined forces of music and literature can lift up both arts beyond themselves. It is this promise that impelled many composers throughout the centuries to transcend their talents in the own musical discipline to create a higher reality - whether in the intimate atmosphere of the Lied or in the exhilarating publicity of the opera. A late seventeenth-century testimony of this is the semi-opera King Arthur (1691) by Henry Purcell: In What Power art thou, who from below… chills run down the spine when the allegorical figure Cold Genius shakes off the snow from his cloak at the request of Cupid, who wants to incite a new spring with his love. |
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ID: AQVR249-2
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Live in Kiev Philharmonic Society 04. 04. 01954 |
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ID: AQVR258-2
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voice, Piano and Orchestra
Bolshoi theatre choir and orchestra.
Conductors: Vassily Nebolsin (1, 2, 5, 6-8, 12, 14, 15),
Kirill Kondrashin (3, 4, 13).
Piano: Sergei Stuchevsky (9, 10). Abram Makarov (11)
Recorded in: 1946 (14), 1947 (9, 10), 1948 (7), 1949 (3-6),
1950 (1, 2, 13, 15). 1952 (8, 12), 1953 (11) |
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ID: AQVR375-2
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voice, Piano and Orchestra
Presenter - M. Balaksheev (11 - 20)
Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, conductor - Vassily Nebolsin (1-8)
Piano: N. Walter (9), G. Orentlikher (10), S. Stuchevsky (11-20)
Recorded in: 1947 (1, 2, 8, 9), 1948 (5-7), 1950 (3, 4, 10) |
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ID: AQVR406-6
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Songs and Romances
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Boris Yurtaikin, piano
Recorded in: 1946 (12, 15, 22, 24, 25), 1947 (3, 10), 1950 (4, 6, 7, 19),
1951 (13, 14, 18, 20, 21), 1952 (1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 11, 16, 17, 23) |
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ID: ART033
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Viola
Live recordings from the personal archives by S.Stepchenko |
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