8/8/2023 0 Comments Mozart composition age 5The picture wasn’t commissioned by Mozart or his father, but by the composer's host in the city - Pietro Lugiati, the Receiver-General for the Venetian Republic. The gifted child musician looked every inch the debonair young gentleman. For the sitting he wore a fine red jacket and powdered wig, and he dangled his bejewelled fingers on a harpsichord’s keys (his ring is thought to have been the one given to him by Prince Joseph Wenzel von Fürstenberg in return for a concert). When the publishers, Artaria, sent the quartets to Italy for publication, they were returned with the report “the engraving is full of mistakes”.Over the course of two days in January 1770, the not-quite-14-year-old Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart posed for a handsome portrait while in Verona with his father. He printed a revision of the opening of the “Dissonance” quartet, implying that Mozart had made errors. Someone corrected Mozart’s “mistakes”:įrançois-Joseph Fétis was a Belgian musicologist, composer, teacher, and one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century. Giuseppe Sarti later published an attack against the “Dissonance” quartet, describing sections as “barbarous”, “execrable”, and “miserable” in its use of whole-tone clusters and chromatic extremes. They were received both enthusiastically and with hostility. May it therefore please you to receive them kindly and to be their Father, Guide and Friend! From this moment I resign to you all my rights in them, begging you however to look indulgently upon the defects which the partiality of a Father’s eye may have concealed from me, and in spite of them to continue in your generous Friendship for him who so greatly values it, in expectation of which I am, with all of my Heart, my dearest Friend, your most Sincere Friend, It is this indulgence above all which urges me to commend them to you and encourages me to hope that they will not seem to you altogether unworthy of your favour. You, yourself, dearest friend, told me of your satisfaction with them during your last Visit to this Capital. They are, it is true, the fruit of a long and laborious endeavor, yet the hope inspired in me by several Friends that it may be at least partly compensated encourages me, and I flatter myself that this offspring will serve to afford me solace one day. Here they are then, O great Man and dearest Friend, these six children of mine. He has taste, and, what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition.” Mozart’s published dedication – (1 September 1785):Ī father who had resolved to send his children out into the great world took it to be his duty to confide them to the protection and guidance of a very celebrated Man, especially when the latter by good fortune was at the same time his best Friend. “Before God, and as an honest man, I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name. Haydn’s reaction to Mozart’s father Leopold: It is assume that Haydn listened rather than playing them himself. Haydn first heard the quartets at two gatherings at Mozart’s home in January and February of 1785. It was one of the most amazing friendships in the history of music. And yet Mozart addressed Haydn in this intimate way, because they were so close. Without their express permission it was considered highly rude. You just did not address older people that way, or even people you did not know well. In those days using “Du” was considered the intimate mode, used for pets, older family members and children – and servants or people of a “lower class”. In Vienna Haydn and Mozart became friends, and they sometimes played quartets together in Mozart’s apartment, with Mozart playing the viola, and Haydn playing violin. Mozart studied Haydn’s string quartets and began composing his set of six, which were published in 1785 but started in 1782, and the 1st was completed that year. The young master studied the older master: It was Haydn, and he recently completed his influential “Opus 33” set of quartets in 1781, the year that Mozart arrived in Vienna. The creator of the modern string quartet: The six “Haydn” Quartets were written in Vienna during the years 1782 to 1785. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed 23 string quartets. Mozart arranged the six quartets in the order of composition, except for reversing the order of K. You’d have to be a hard core lover of strings to make it through in one sitting: But here they are, with The Quatuor Mosaïques These are links for all of the six quartets: It would take something like three hours. You want to try each one, or even listen to one movement at a time. I would not suggest listening to all of them in one sitting.
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