When in 1785 the Wiener Tonkünstlersozietät, a pension fund for the widows and orphans of professional musicians, asked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for a choral work for their benefit concerts, the composer used a trick that was quite common at the time: he placed the Kyrie and Gloria of his unfinished mass in c -Moll with […]
With its large polyphonic choirs and its long virtuosic solo arias, the Great Mass in C minor, written in 1782, surpassed Mozart’s earlier sacred compositions in scope. Nowadays it is considered one of the greatest mass settings in the history of European music, even though it remained unfinished, like the composer’s requiem. There is still […]
Begun to celebrate his marriage to Constanze, but left unfinished at the composer’s death, Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor can clearly be traced back to the choral writing of J.S. Bach and his son, Carl Phillip Emmanuel. In this televised appearance at the BBC Proms, we unpack the Mass’s musical genealogy, tracing its roots […]
Alive with musical exchange, 18th-century Vienna was known as a city where composers, performers and patrons moved within the same close-knit circles, sharing ideas as readily as they shared the stage. Joseph Haydn Symphony No.6 "Le Matin" Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Keyboard Concerto in C major Wq. 20 Marianna Martines Sinfonia in C Major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Keyboard Concerto No.14 […]
Alive with musical exchange, 18th-century Vienna was known as a city where composers, performers and patrons moved within the same close-knit circles, sharing ideas as readily as they shared the stage. Joseph Haydn Symphony No.6 “Le Matin” Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Keyboard Concerto Wq. 20 in C Marianna Martines Sinfonia in C Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart […]
Alive with musical exchange, 18th-century Vienna was known as a city where composers, performers and patrons moved within the same close-knit circles, sharing ideas as readily as they shared the stage. Joseph Haydn Symphony No.6 “Le Matin” Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Keyboard Concerto Wq. 20 in C Marianna Martines Sinfonia in C Major Wolfgang Amadeus […]
