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2 CD -
82876 75735 2 - (p) 2006
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| Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) |
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Early Symphonies -
Music & Letters, Vol. 2
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| "...Was mich
vergnügt..." - "...Wen man die Sau nennt
so kommt sie gerent..." |
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0' 57" |
CD1-1
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Sinfonia
in D, KV 97/73
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9' 22" |
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| - Allegro |
2' 47" |
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CD1-2
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| - Andante |
2' 34" |
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CD1-3
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- Menuetto & Trio
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2' 36" |
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CD1-4
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| - Presto |
1' 25" |
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CD1-5
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"...Dieses
Monat ist in der grösten Geschindickeit
hingeflossen..." - "...Allerliebste
Schwester..."
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1' 12" |
CD1-6
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| Sinfonia in D:
Ouvertüre & Nr. 1 zu Ascanio
in Alba, KV 111 |
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6' 22" |
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- Allegro assai
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3' 53" |
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CD1-7
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- Andante grazioso
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1' 28" |
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CD1-8
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- Finale.
Presto
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1' 01" |
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CD1-9
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"...Von
unsern Sachen mag ich dir nichts
schreiben..." - "...ich bin got lob und
danck samt meiner miserablen feder
gesund..."
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1' 13" |
CD1-10
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| Sinfonia in G, KV 124 |
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12' 53" |
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- Allegro
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5' 18" |
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CD1-11
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| - Andante |
4' 20" |
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CD1-12
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| - Menuetto |
2' 15" |
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CD1-13
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| - Presto |
2' 00" |
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CD1-14
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"...Dies ist der
3te Brief den ich dir von Neapl
schreibe..." - "...Casa sorella
mia..."
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1' 15" |
CD1-15
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| Sinfonia in D, KV
141a: Ouvertüre zu Il sogno di
Scipione KV 126 |
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7' 02" |
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- Allegro moderato
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3' 37" |
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CD1-16
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| - Andante |
1' 51" |
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CD1-17
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| - Presto |
1' 44" |
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CD1-18
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| "...wir sollen
morgen eine Neuigkeit erfahren..." -
"...p:s:an alle gute freund..." |
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1' 09" |
CD1-19
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| Sinfonia in C, KV 162 |
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8' 31" |
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- Allegro assai
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3' 55" |
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CD1-20
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- Andante grazioso
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2' 48" |
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CD1-21
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- Presto assai
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1' 48" |
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CD1-22
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| "...Ich kann
ohnmöglich schöner schreiben..." |
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0' 28" |
CD1-23
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| Sinfonia in E flat, KV
184/166a |
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8' 14" |
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- Molto Presto
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2' 53" |
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CD1-24
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| - Andante |
3' 05" |
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CD1-25
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- Allegro
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2' 16" |
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CD1-26
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| Sinfonia in G, KV
199/162a |
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22' 03" |
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| - Allegro |
6' 41" |
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CD2-1
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- Andante grazioso
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10' 05" |
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CD2-2
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| - Presto |
5' 20" |
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CD2-3
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| "...Ich denke hin
und her..." |
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1' 16" |
CD2-4
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| Sinfonia in G minor,
KV 183 |
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27' 22" |
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- Allegro con brio
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10' 45" |
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CD2-5
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| - Andante |
6' 06" |
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CD2-6
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| - Menuetto |
3' 34" |
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CD2-7
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| - Allegro |
6' 59" |
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CD2-8
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| "...Nun will ich
dir ausführlicher schreiben..." -
"...Allerliebste schwester!..." |
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1' 33" |
CD2-9
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| Sinfonia in D:
Ouvertüre zu La finta giardiniera,
KV 196 und KV 127/207a |
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7' 05" |
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- Allegro molto
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2' 32" |
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CD2-10
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- Andante grazioso
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2' 12" |
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CD2-11
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| - Allegro |
2' 21" |
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CD2-12
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| "...wielleicht wird
von dem grossen Beyfahl..." |
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0' 49" |
CD2-13
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| Menuetto and Trio in
C, KV 409/383f |
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7' 05" |
CD2-14
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| "...Allerliebste
schwester! Ich bin auch gott lob und
danck gesund..." |
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0' 38" |
CD2-15
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Nikolaus
Harnoncourt,
Sprecher (Leopold)
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Maximilian
Harnoncourt,
Sprecher
(Wolfgang)
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| Concentus
Musicus Wien |
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Nikolaus
Harnoncourt
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Luogo
e data di registrazione
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Casino Zögernitz, Vienna (Austria) -
dicembre 1999 e dicembre 2000 (music)
- St. Georgen, (Austria) - 7-8 novembre
2003 & 13 aprile 2004 (letture) |
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Registrazione
live / studio
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| studio |
Producer
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| Christian
Leins / Tobias Lehmann / Helmut Mühle /
Michael Brammann / Teldex Studio Berlin
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Prima Edizione CD
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| Deutsche
Harmonia Mundi - 82876 75735 2 - (2 cd)
- 59' 50" + 68' 03" - (p) 2006 - DDD |
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Prima
Edizione LP
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Note
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| Idea
& Concept: Alice Harnoncourt, Dr.
Franz Harnoncourt, Christian Leins. |
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| "Fame, Honour
and Money" |
“So
I must needs announce to the world a
wonder that God has allowed to be born
in Salzburg. I am indebted to Almighty
God alone forthis act - I should
otherwise be the most ungrateful of all
creatures." Thus Leopold Mozart wrote
from Vienna. Indeed, it must have been a
revelation for him as he began to
comprehend what an exceptional child -
“this wonder of nature" - was growing up
in his family alongside a sister who was
herself musically very talented. Imbued
with an awareness of the grace of God in
choosing him as the father of this
wonder, Leopold Mozart all but
worshipped his little son.
When, during their visit to Vienna in
1767, there was an outbreak of smallpox
that invaded even the imperial family,
Mozart senior showed his sense of
responsibility for the divine child: "I
was forced to leave my wife and daughter
there and I fled with my Wolfgang to a
good friend - I could scarcely wait to
take my Wolfgang away from Vienna, where
the smallpox raged, to a better air, so
at 4 o'clock little Wolfgang was wrapped
up in linen sheets and leather and
carred to the carriage, and then I drove
off with him." They managed to escape
the epidemic, and from Moravia, where he
had survived a mild attack of smallpox,
Leopold wrote to Salzburg: "For here, in
a certain sense, a new era of his life
is commencing."
These extracts from letters reveal more
about the inner life of the Mozart
family than the most detailed
psychological interpretations of later
generations. From Wolfgang’s sister
Nannerl we learn that the three-year-old
boy "often amused himself looking for
the thirds at the piano, which he always
played when he found them, displaying
obvious pleasure at the melodious
sound." And aged four, he started to
"scrawl" the composition of a concerto
onto manuscript paper, using a great
deal of ink in the process. His father
mocked him gently at first, but went
rigid with amazement with he took a
closer look at the notes - and once he
was able to speak again, with tears in
his eyes he praised the way "everything
is correctly and regularly composed".
Wolfgang Amadeus became the centre of
his father's life and thus the centre of
the whole family. Leopold abandoned his
own career ambitions and stopped
composing in order to devote his entire
attention to the careful education of
his two children, and particularly of
his son. The fascination that he felt
for Wolfgang’s musical development did
not decline - on the contrary, it
actually increased over the years.
All human experience seemed to lie
hidden in this musical spirit, simply
waiting to be brought to life, even at
the piano keyboard. When his father gave
him lessons, the young Wolfgang appeared
not to be really learning so much as
remembering, so rapidly did he grasp
techniques, sounds and whole musical
structures. He then set about creating
music himself, without hesitation and
with supreme confidence. Nannerl would
later write about her brother: "He never
had to be forced to compose or play, on
the contrary, we often had to hold him
back, otherwise he would have spent all
day and all night at the piano or with
pen in hand."
On the extensive journeys that took the
whole Mozart family through Europe in
its own carriage, the two child
prodigies played at the courts of
princes, kings and emperors and aroused
admiration wherever they went, while the
musical genius of Wolfgang Amadeus
astonished even the experts.
From later correspondence we can draw
the conclusion that Mozart père
had fallen in love with his son to such
an extent that he wanted the child all
to himself and restricted the mother's
influence. As the result, her attempts
to suppress the lad's bad habits were in
vain. From 1769 to 1773, when Wolfgang
was aged 14-18, Leopold Mozart embarked
on these musical travels with him as his
sole companion: as loving father,
teacher, servant and manager in one.
This way, he had his son to himself. And
although family life chez Mozart
was certainly happy, one can well
imagine that mother and daughter back
home in Salzburg blossomed every time
the ambitious Leopold and his pampered
"crown prince" were away on one of their
triumphant tours. One such tour through
Italy, of several months' duration,
climaxed in the performed three operas
at the Milan court of Archduke Ferdinand
of Austria.
In autumn 1773 they were back home in
Salzburg again. They had earned a small
fortune, and the encounters with the
three great masters of the time and
their works had further promoted
Wolfgang’s musical development. At the
age of 17, he was already famous
throughout Europe. Leopold Mozart had
achieved his goals for his son (and thus
for the whole family), namely fame,
honour and money, and the course was set
for a grand future.
Mozart père et fils bided their
time in the employ of the thrifty-minded
Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. Leopold
was assistant Kapellmeister at the
Salzburg court, while Wolfgang led the
court orchestra. But wait as they might
- year in year out, full of eager
anticipation and hope, yearning,
impatience and even despair - they
waited in vain, No court offered
Wolfgang Amadeus a post as
Kapellmeister. Had the world forgotten
him?
Four years passed and Wolfgang couldn’t
stand it any longer - he needed to get
out into the world. His father never had
been able to refuse him anything, and
agreed to let him go. Wolfgang was
accompanied on this occasion by his
mother, as Leopold was unable to get
leave. He certainly couldn`t let
Wolfgang travel alone, for something
strange had occurred: despite the
musical maturity the young man had
attained, which constantly filled his
father with pride and admiration, all
Leopold’s didactic efforts to train his
son`s character had been in vain. At the
age of 21, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was
unworldly and lacking in independence.
He was affectionate and emotionally
needy like a child, and like a child he
reacted uncritically to every influence,
as he was unable to distinguish between
good and evil, right and wrong. The
Salzburg court trumpeter Andreas
Schachtner, a close friend of the family
to whom we owe the delightful accounts
of Mozart’s early childhood, wrote: "He
was full of fire, and showed an
inclination for just about anything. Had
he not enioyed such a good upbringing as
he did, I imagine he might well have
turned into a dastardly villain, he was
so receptive to any stimulus."
All his experience of life, every
impression and mood, everything that
happened to him right down to everyday
conversations, all this went straight
into his universal musical system and
was turned into sound. "His mind was
always working," according to
contemporary accounts. "He never stopped
composing, as it were, so that he often
appeared absent-minded." Leopold Mozart
sent this delicate character on a trip
with his mothen although she had no
influence on him. Wolfgang and his
mother travelled from Munich via
Mannheim to Paris, where Frau Mozart
died. And although Wolfgang was again
fêted wherever he went, he nonetheless
destroyed every chance for the future
with his puerile behaviour and his
impressionable and unreasonable manner.
The proud and high-spirited departure
from Salzburg was followed 16 months
later by a wretched and humiliating
homecoming. It was true that the long
absence had dissolved Wolfgang's
childish dependence on his father, but
|n Mannheim it had also brought him the
next emotional tie - to the Weber
family. They alienated him from his
father and sister alike and exploited
him unscrupulously to the end of his
days - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the
demonic imp who longed for love, one of
the greatest geniuses in human history.
After his death, Nannerl would write:
"outside the sphere of music, he was and
remained a child at nearly all times...
he was always in need of a father, a
mother or someone else to supervise him.
He couldn’t deal with money, he married
a totally unsuitable girl against his
father's will, hence his untidy home,
and he had too generous a heart. Anyone
who came close to his heart could get
whatever they wanted from him."
Dorothea
Leonhart
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Nikolaus
Harnoncourt (1929-2016)
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