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Classical Reflections 1: Le nozze di Figaro Mozart (+3 More)

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Revolution, war, enlightenment, liberation - at the time of the Viennese Classic, Europe's systems began to falter and were reorganized. Meanwhile, two big names in music history shaped new forms of instrumental music that became the basis for all subsequent generations of composers. The work of Mozart and Haydn was not only inextricably linked to Vienna, the two were also good friends.

Haydn spent around 30 years as Prince Esterházy's bandmaster at his castle in Eisenstadt and only later moved to Vienna. While Haydn is today largely associated with the further development of the symphony and the string quartet, his piano music fell into the background. The Piano Concerto in D major was probably written in Esterházy's service. With the catchy melodies of the Vivace, the romantic Adagio and the famous Rondo, with echoes and quotes from Hungarian music, it is Haydn's most frequently played piano concerto.

Mozart, who had undertaken countless journeys from an early age, came to Vienna in 1781. He was very familiar with the work of his father's friend Haydn, took up his genres and developed them further. This can be seen most clearly in his six quartets dedicated to “Papa Haydn”. It is unknown why Mozart began composing his last great symphony, No. 41, nicknamed the “Jupiter Symphony” in 1788, a year of deep crisis. It is assumed that, among other things, Haydn's so-called “Paris Symphonies” provided the impetus for this. What makes the “Jupiter Symphony” unique to date and still famous today is the artistic final movement with its extensive fugue embedded in the classical sonata movement. This meant that the focus of the symphony, for the first time in the history of the genre, was on the last movement.

Two years earlier, in 1786, Mozart wrote his first opera buffa, “Le nozze di Figaro”. Together with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, he has created a work of socio-political explosiveness. Because the social order and the rights of the nobles were already crumbling before the French Revolution.

The cornerstones of public concert life also began to emerge in the classical period. In complete contrast to this were the chamber music concerts that took place a few years later at Leipziger Strasse 3 in Berlin. The Mendelssohn family invited people to their traditional Sunday music every week, for which their son Felix primarily composed in an intimate setting. His first of only two piano concertos was a hit at the time. The youthful work, with its passionate and wild character, is somewhat reminiscent of Mozart's cheerful lightness.

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