Name: Mozart and His Satire
Start: 2024-03-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: NOSPR

Organization

Admin

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

hornist

Paweł Cal

Horn

Natalia Kawecka

Instrumentalist

Aleksander Daszkiewicz

Violin II

Viola

Dawid Jadamus

Cellist

Adam Krzeszowiec

Cello

Violin

Singer

Marek Romanowski

Double Bass

Beata Ogryzek

Violin I

Mozart and His Satire

Katowice

Poland

NOSPR

Chamber Hall

Mozart and His Satire: Horn Quintet in E Flat Major, K. 407 Mozart (+2 More)

Public

Concert

Horn Quintet in E Flat Major, K. 407

Divertimenti for Wind Sextet

Simon Samuel

Approved

The term "classical music" suggests that a sense of humor and distance are not its most common traits. We find most of these qualities in the classical era, a time when sound artistry was approached with perhaps the least reverence, and refined music served the entertainment of the wealthy. The Horn Quintet, written by Mozart for his acquaintance, the musician Joseph Leutgeb, with whom the composer enjoyed jesting, is essentially a chamber ensemble concert. In the finale, the strings seem to gently mock the limitations of the solo instrument. 

Mozart's biographer, Alfred Einstein, hypothesized that the perfectly crafted "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" was meant to counterbalance the earlier-written Musical Joke – a satire on inept composers, in which Wolfgang Amadeus contradicts his entire craftsmanship. Indeed, these two works placed side by side complement each other perfectly.

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