Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• (1756-1791)
• Salzburg, Austria

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Mozart - life

• keyboard and violin virtuoso
• Leopold - father/teacher
• Archbishop of Salzburg

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Music

• 41 Symphonies
• String Quartets
• Haydn Quartets (1782-5)
• Piano Concertos
• Operas
• Masses and Requiem

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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525

• Serenade/divertimento
• popular for outdooor entertaining in Salzburg
• For string quartet or small ensemble
• Standard symphonic layout and forms
• I. Sonata Allegro
• II. Rondo
• III. Minuet and Trio
• IV. Sonata Allegro

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Listening Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K.
488, First movement

• Double Exposition Sonata Form
• Orchestral Exposition
• Solo Exposition
• Development
• Recapitulation
• Cadenza
• Coda

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Orchestral Exposition

• A theme - A Major
• Bridge
• B theme - A Major
• Close

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Solo Exposition

• A theme - A Major
• Bridge
• B theme - E Major
• Close

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Development

• Starts with A theme
• Constant modulation
• Fragments and recombines the themes

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Recapitulation

• A theme - Orchestra/Piano
• Bridge
• B theme Piano/Orchestra
• no modulation
• Close

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Cadenza

• Improvised by the soloist
• this one written by Mozart for a student
• ends with a trill on the 5th scale degree

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Coda
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Operas

• Le nozze di Figaro - comic opera
• Don Giovanni - Dramma diocoso
• Cosi fan tutte - opera buffa
• da Ponte, librettist for above
• Die Entführung - singspiel
• Die Zauberflöte - singspiel (1st great German
  Opera)

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Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 5, No.3 (100a)

• Ah, chi mi dice mai
• Elviras rage wide leaps, runs, tremelos,
  syncopated pulses
  
• Don Giovanni light-hearted and mocking

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Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 5, No. 5 (100b)

• Madamina! Il catalogo e questo
• catalogue aria
• immediate repetion of phrases
• rapid repeated notes
• sequence
• The various women are portrayed by the Minuet,
  Symphony, and Pattersong.

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Requiem, K. 626

• last work
• for Count Walsegg
• finished by Franz Xavier Süssmayer