How To Use Mozart In A Sentence
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Or consider the college piano student, carefully groomed to taper each Mozartean phrase just so, and deliver sharp accents in Bartok.
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Pasolini clearly did not intend Salò as a late work, much as Mozart did not design his requiem as adumbrative lament.
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It will include harpists, a soprano soloist accompanied by the flute and spinet and music by Mozart as well as other lesser-known composers.
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Then as well we were treated to beautiful Mozart and Strauss music by a delightful quintet in traditional costume.
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In this respect at least, Mozart resembles his comparably productive contemporary Joseph Haydn.
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Colmar music "Colmar International Festival" this year celebrates the creative relationship between violinist Jacques Thibaud and pianist Marguerite Long with 26 concerts, including works by Brahms and Mozart.
What's on Around Europe
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Mozart died in 1791 and was buried in a pauper's grave at Vienna's St. Mark's Cemetery.
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In the following video clip you can watch her demolish the Queen of the Night's aria "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" from Mozart's The Magic Flute.
George Heymont: Dose Damn Damsels in Dis Dress
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First the candy: Known as Mozart Kugeln, packed in a delightful red tin with tiny portraitures of the composer, these are deluxe confections exquisitely filled with marzipan, made from "fresh green pistachios, almonds and rich hazelnut-nougat, enrobed with delicious milk and bitter chocolates.
Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week
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There are only a handful of entrepreneurs who doted on Steve Jobs as publicly as Masayoshi Son , the founder and chief executive of Japan's Internet and mobile carrier Softbank Corp. In the last few years, Mr. Son has compared the late Apple CEO to Leonardo da Vinci and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, while labeling him a "genius" and a "god.
Softbank Founder Masayoshi Son: The 'Next Steve Jobs'?
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Vienna's trump cards include concerts in the palaces where Mozart made music.
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From the opening notes of the Allegro vivace assai, the Berlin players conjured up Mozart in the best Viennese manner.
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A larger-scale version of the sextet of spirits which closes act I, act IV moves with the quickness and confusedness of a full Mozartian concerted finale.
'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
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Mozart's ‘last words’ were his attempt to produce the sound of the kettledrums in his Requiem.
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The first half of the concert moved from 16th century recorder music, through Mozart, vocal chamber music, on to rumbustious wind sea shanties and then a lively string quintet.
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Both Haydn and Mozart played the organ here.
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In those letters I discovered and fell in love with Nannerl, Mozart's sister, almost five years older than her brother, a prodigy in her own right, a marvelous singer and remarkable harpsichordist.
George Heymont: The Shadow of Your Sib
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As for the comment about removing 100 (or 300) pages, it reminds me of the scene in Amadeus when the emperor says "There are too many notes," and Mozart replies, "Which notes would you have me remove?
Waiting for Harry
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Mozart's final, intensively creative years in Vienna produced all manner of wonders – operas, symphonies, concerti and several works for the keyboard.
Mozart in Vienna
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The delightful Finnish soprano is the first of a distinguished group of vocal recitalists at Brian McMaster's final festival, performing songs by Mozart, Sibelius, Schoenberg and Britten.
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For modern instrument accounts of Mozart's Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Steinberg and Uchida go to the head of the class.
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Mozart, at the age of three, learnt the clavecin by watching his sister play; a year afterwards he composed admirably, at the age of seven he played the violin at first sight without having had any teacher, and proved himself a composer of genius before he reached his twelfth birthday.
Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
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Pork cutlets may have killed Mozart… another good reason to be vegetarian!
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Singers performing Mozart's operas often dress in/wear historical costume.
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Mozart showed genius even at the age of six, when he began to compose minuets.
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All round, a flawless account, celebrating a Schubert who is as much the son of Haydn and Mozart as the father of Schumann and Brahms.
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Mozart's music is characterized by its naivety and clarity.
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the concert was mostly Mozart
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Here, virtuoso Jacques Zoon makes Mozart's music sound as fresh and warm as a doe sipping from a clear mountain spring.
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Her favorites were the soulful climaxes of country-western ballads and the tutti passages of Mozart orchestral works.
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The 200th anniversary of Mozart's death was the occasion for hundreds of special films, books and concerts.
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Again, Mozart has never sounded better, and it is instantly obvious that the audio track has been remastered.
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A really quiet and disciplined audience lost themselves in symphonies of Schubert and Mozart.
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There's no rules, and Mozart was before the age of the metronome.
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The number of divas who can hit the f6 in Mozart's Queen of the Night is vanishingly small, and you just can't perform The Queen of the Night without that famous f6.
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He can also soothe the crying child with the ‘Mozart effect’, and inspire the non-reader to an awakening.
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I have to admit that my heart sank when we learnt that the Marionettentheater's version of Mozart's Magic Flute was complete, unabridged, entirely in German and would last 21/2 hours - but we needn't have worried.
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Recitative comes in two main forms, semplice or secco, which comprises most of the dialogue, and accompagnato or obbligato, which is reserved for passages requiring particular dramatic emphasis, though fully spoken parts (parlante), were not uncommon, particularly in Mozart.
'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
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From waltzes, tangos, swing to romantic tunes the band excels in the music of Mozart, Lizst and Scubert.
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There are movements from three sonatas by Scarlatti; sonatas by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, and works by Bach.
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Peter Ruzicka, the new intendant of the festival, threatens to revive it for 2006, the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.
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Mozart's music may be the harmonious equivalent to countryside palaces or grand neoclassical academies.
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Mozart composed a lot of music.
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He was awarded the silver medal of the Mozarteum in 1950.
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Located in a villa where Mozart wrote Don Giovanni, the museum features sheet music, original concert posters, and numerous pianos.
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Anyone who can listen to Mozart's Requiem Mass without getting shivers up the spine is either physically or emotionally dead.
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It should be added, what Mr Holmes tells us on good authority, that the vice of ebriety was not among Mozart's failings.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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When the young Beethoven arrived in Vienna in 1792, the musical zeitgeist was defined by Haydn and Mozart.
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Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
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The Kendal South programme, directed by Hugh Davies, features Mozart's much loved Requiem, Bruckner motets and an orchestral work, Mozart's Violin Concerto no 3 in G.
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Another explores the death of Mozart and Van Gogh as the result of haunting by lamia.
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He brought stylish performance practice to the music of the baroque and classical periods, especially Handel oratorio and Mozart opera.
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It should be noted that Mozart was hardly kind when scoring the operatic arias for the full lyric soprano.
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Kiri took the part of Donna Elvira and Malvina sang Donna Anna in Mozart's sextet from Don Giovanni.
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If one ventures to wonder whether Haitink has the quicksilver mind necessary for Mozart, it is only because his Verdi and Wagner were superlative.
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Led by playing of uncommon mellowness and timbral purity from clarinetist Anthony McGill, enhanced by the elegant understatement of veteran violist Michael Tree and the character-rich keyboard work of pianist Anna Polonsky, they brought out the genial warmth in Mozart's writing.
A superlative performance by the Schumann Trio
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In Mozart's absence, Constanze organized and concluded the deal.
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Graffiti Classics' concert on August 11 includes Mozart and Hungarian dances.
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Renowned for flexibility, performing familiar and less well-known chamber pieces, the ensemble pairs the supreme string quintets of Mozart and Mendelsshon.
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Have you heard the new recording of Mozart's Requiem?
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People who listen to Mozart then score slightly higher on specific tests of cognitive function.
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Do you prefer classical music like Mozart and Mahler, or pop?
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They held celebrations to mark the anniversary of Mozart's death.
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Any celebration of Stravinsky must include dance, and Mark Morris, whose choreographic work for a previous festival, "Mozart Dances," miraculously captured every musical shape and impulse in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 11, is now offering Stravinsky's "Renard," a small theater piece based on a Russian tale about farmyard animals outwitting a prowling fox.
Stravinsky Crashes the Party
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There is little dramatic impulse, but, especially when sung in German, the solo music is reminiscent of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in its simple direct melody and clear diatonic harmony.
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She stays up all night reading André Gide ( "Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion," she writes, "that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!"), uses the word aye unironically, and nearly wears the needle off her turntable playing Mozart records.
ReadySteadyBlog
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In Mozart's joyous opera, fidelity is tested, emotions are betrayed and lovers deceived when a cynical gentleman challenges two fiancés to a bet.
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Twilight at Mrs. Wickett's, when the School bell clanged for call-over, brought them back to him in a cloud — Katherine scampering along the stone corridors, laughing beside him at some "howler" in an essay he was marking, taking the cello part in a Mozart trio for the School concert, her creamy arm sweeping over the brown sheen of the instrument.
Goodbye, Mr Chips
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—that is to say, a self-contained but slightly smug little kid called Wolfie—plays second fiddle to his older sister in René Féret's beguiling celebration, in French with English subtitles, of the family's other prodigy.
'One Day': A Stutter-Stop Affair to Forget
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As modern and anti-establishment as Mozart, Lois inspired a generation of artists, from Martin Scorsese who once told Lois he remembers where he was when he saw his Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian cover for the first time, to Robert Redford who originally went to Pratt trying to be him.
Andrea Chalupa: The Voice of God? Common Sense: George Lois's Superfocus
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I've seen someone who taught a Yorkshire terrier to imitate slowly rising pitch contours, and have myself sung along with a mutt who seemed to imitate motifs from George Jones and Mozart.
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The duo will perform songs by foreign composers such as Buxtehude, Handel and Mozart, and pieces by Icelandic composers Á.
Iceland Review
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the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart
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L] istening to Mozart reduced allergen-induced skin wheal responses with a concomitant decrease of total and allergen-specific IgE production.
Allegra non troppo
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It is precisely because the characters' amatory trials are so real that we are moved by their final Mozartian resolution.
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Cuius animam gementem, with its soft martial rhythm and bravura high D-flat, its ariosi redolent with Italian bel canto, Mozart, and Gluck.
Audiophile Audition Headlines
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Symphonic music tended to be retrospective, with Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven forming the staple fare and accounting for the conservative forms of Schumann's and Mendelssohn's orchestral compositions.
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Two years later, ten weeks before his death, Mozart told his wife he was orchestrating the rondo finale for his friend Anton
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We have already had excellent accounts of Beethoven and Mozart symphonies and serenades and now it is the turn of some exquisite Haydn and Schubert symphonies.
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But it is too simplistic to counterpose the idea of Mozart as a product of the Enlightenment to the idea of the composer as a born genius.
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True to Mozart's intention to present the incorrigible libertine as a dramma giocoso - a funny drama - Erwin Schrott was a charismatic and riveting Don Juan, while Kyle Ketelsen's Leporello, the Don's comic and unwilling manservant, stole all the rest of the scenes.
Don Giovanni
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It's not that Turnbull is stupid-he can quote Kierkegaard and Pascal on angst and allude to the deaths of Schubert and Mozart and distinguish between a sinistrorse and a dextrorse Polygonum vine, etc.
John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End for Magnificent Narcissists?
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Hummel's paring down of Mozart's work lays bare the exposition and development of themes with absolute clarity.
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He played an early little sonata of Mozart's, which he magicked into a masterpiece with his deft touch.
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You can analyze a Mozart piano concerto note by note and still not fathom the genius of the whole piece.
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It's really a dark piece of work, pretty much driven by Mozart's guilt over his father's death; in a lot of ways, I think it prefigures his requiem mass; a big, black truckload of woe.
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They held celebrations to mark the anniversary of Mozart's death.
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The mood changed as Robert Trevino mounted the podium, threw his body around, and grabbed the orchestra's attention with the opening of the Mozart, another of the great challenges at the beginning of big pieces that create a violent, irremediable pivot.
Laurence Vittes: Have Baton, Will Travel: Classical Music Combine in New Orleans
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Mike, who was just a kid in the neighborhood with odd — evolved? sophisticated?— taste, had dozens more tapes: Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Strauss.
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Essentially a lyric soprano with coloratura capabilities, she was at home in both Mozart and Richard Strauss, as well as in bel canto and verismo.
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Still, any score by such an important composer, even one that plays quirky variations on themes by Mozart, is worth hearing.
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But, like Mozart's music, Ozick's prose flirts with frippery.
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Mozart was no doubt a good Catholic, but his religion did not weigh heavily upon him.
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It is these characteristics that give these Mozart performances, with the violinist doubling as soloist and director of the OAE, such dash and vitality.
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Mozart keeps the listener continuously off-balance; he is an imp and trickster, the patron saint of practical jokes, as it were.
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Mozart was a child genius
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Still, any score by such an important composer, even one that plays quirky variations on themes by Mozart, is worth hearing.
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Mozart's musical compositions include symphonies and operas.
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Do you prefer classical music like Mozart and Mahler, or pop?
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Snippets of waltz occasionally float through, the Mozart connection abruptly contrasted by ostinatos, lilting chords, and variants of the Mozartian melody in Russian sounding woodwind lines.
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Mozart showed genius even at the age of six, when he began to compose minuets.
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The concert included works by Mozart et al.
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Led by playing of uncommon mellowness and timbral purity from clarinetist Anthony McGill, enhanced by the elegant understatement of veteran violist Michael Tree and the character-rich keyboard work of pianist Anna Polonsky, they brought out the genial warmth in Mozart's writing.
A superlative performance by the Schumann Trio
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In this respect at least, Mozart resembles his comparably productive contemporary Joseph Haydn.
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Where Mozart uses divided violas at the opening, he applauds ‘the care with which the harmony is disposed so as to avoid doubling the notes of the theme in the violins’.
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The mature works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert belong to the Classical period.
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Haitink and the Dresden Staatskappelle (one of the oldest orchestras in Germany) will treat concert-goers to a programme of Mozart, Weber and Bruckner.
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The sheer bulk of Mozart's music is extraordinary.
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I must note, however, the presence of a few very brief (less than one second) dropouts in the audio during both the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Mozart.
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Under his expert hand, the Wiener Philharmoniker, apt to phone it in for something as "quotidian" as Mozart's 40th, shines and sparkles with the swank and swagger only it has.
Archive 2007-01-01
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What more pleasure can there be than putting sound to Mozart in these elegant serenades?
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Sexual mischief was again on the menu with a delightful excerpt from Don Giovanni, as Ewan Taylor charmed devilishly as Mozart's willingly damned Lothario.
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Mozart had with him a B flat string quintet with two violas written when he was sixteen and just back from his third Italian journey.
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It's really a dark piece of work, pretty much driven by Mozart's guilt over his father's death; in a lot of ways, I think it prefigures his requiem mass.
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orientalisms can be found in Mozart's operas
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There are echoes of Mozart in her first piano compositions.
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The way Bill plays that piece would have Mozart turning in his grave.
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an inspired performance of Mozart's C minor concerto
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Hooligans are not reformed by Mozart, so much as driven away by a noise that is as alien and hostile to their world as whale song to a camel herd.
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Mozart was a musical prodigy.
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Leopold Mozart was a talented composer, but no more than that, so sublimated his own remaining ambitions to devote himself to the coaching and ‘particular proof’ of his surviving children.
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The Così arias are stylish, and Mozart's showiest passages are delivered with clean agility and musicality.
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But a glimpse of the relationship can be found in the notes of a visitor, August Gottlieb Meissner, who was present when Mozart's friends importuned him to finish the overture to Don Giovanni.
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It's part of the curiosity of contemporary Japan that it presents you with some of the most jangled and mishmashed, unattractive urban landscapes in the world and yet, in many places, every little shop and cafe you enter will be immaculate and exquisite, whether it plays only Beatles records or Mozart.
Big in Japan: why Tokyo is top
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In Mozart and Salieri he wrote in a highly expressive declamatory idiom, while in Tsarskaya nevesta he used traditional forms and smooth melodies.
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It's a movement full of goofy stumbles, miles away from the suavity of Mozart and Classicism.
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Mezzo-soprano Kristen Choi sang Cherubino's aria, "Non so piú cosa son," from the first act of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.
George Heymont: To Preserve and Protect
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Reb for the link): "L'Orchestra du Roi Soleil, Raymond Scott, Sibelius, Mozart, The Beach Boys 'song In My Room, and the gravicèmbalo col piano e forte all make appearances in Cadaver Dogs, as well musical terms like hemiola and tactus.
WhimsyLand
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On Mozart's funeral a spoil-sport historian once again gives short shrift to our cherished melancholic picture of a great man just heartlessly chucked into a hole.
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Because of prior arrangements, or perhaps because of laziness, Mozart did not get the sheet music to Strinassachi until the day of the performance, meaning she sight-read the entire sonata.
Author Carrie Lofty on When Regina Met Mozart
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In every case, Mozart was sharper, unhackneyed, and always threw in a little surprise.
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There surely must have been a hint of gold in music for woodwind and horns for Mozart to have dressed his offerings in such a resplendent manner.
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Mozart was a talented musician.
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Essentially a lyric soprano with coloratura (and later spinto) capabilities, she was at home in both Mozart and Richard Strauss, as well as in bel canto and verismo.
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Look, no-one's about to hold up a handful of Boccherini Quintets and suggest that they're measured against Mozart's, and when it comes to string quintets with two cellos, a certain C major work by Schubert tends to top the polls.
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I heard the first few measures of Mozart's third violin concerto in my head set to the rhythm of the crude chant.
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Before Christmas the dulcet tones of Mozart, Handel and a host of other classical composers emanated from the statue of Brunel, in Haveock Square.
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Explaining the setting, Wilsher says: ‘The balmy English summer evening seems the perfect place for Mozart's tale of marital infidelity, the privileges of the noblesse and the anguish of young love.’
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Mozart was a child prodigy
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The letters section offers a feast of anecdotes about Mozart.
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It has attracted numerous polyphonic settings, by such composers as Victoria, Palestrina, and Mozart.
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The recordings include previously unheard concertos and sinfoniettas from composers such as Bach, as well as orchestral suites and concerti by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms.
British Library's Archival Sound Recordings project now has 1,000 classical music recordings
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the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances
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he was famous for his reading of Mozart
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Now it's Mozart's poise, craft and wit that tend to get scanted.
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The sheer bulk of Mozart's music is extraordinary.
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The Mozart Ensemble is/are playing at the Wigmore Hall tonight.
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The Mozart shown beneath the Chopin has the same form, using repetition and ending with a recall of the first section.
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The balance between fairy tale and ritual in this opera is always a crapshoot and, although audiences love fanciful animals and flying spirits, Mozart's Masonic message tipped that balance here.
'Magic Flute' hits the right notes -- except for the dramatic ones
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Famous for his slow tempos and his cultivation of a titanic, monumental style, he was a superlative interpreter of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Mahler.
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Her own health suffered greatly, which caused Mozart much anxiety.
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It is not simply schoolchildren who benefit from a spot of Mozart.
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But, if we agree to put Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, and a few others on marmorean pedestals in a special Hall of Fame (and this is a compromise on my part, at any rate, as I consider much of the music written by even these men to be below any moderately high standard), what about the rest?
The Merry-Go-Round
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Six months ago, a thunderbolt hit Mozart.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maria Szymankowska, who was appointed to the Russian court; Marianne Martines, who studied with Haydn and was a duet partner of Mozart's; and Clara Wieck Schumann, who concertized widely and was the champion of her husband Robert's works.
African American composers featured in Tuesday recital
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Certainly there is something youthful in the image posterity holds of both composers: Mozart's impishness, Schubert's ardent drama.
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It has been said that the bulk of Mozart's sacred music - he composed nearly 20 Masses alone - was written mostly to please paymasters.
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For example, remember the hullabaloo about the so-called ‘Mozart effect’ a few years ago.
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Mozart and Weber quintets are two of her favourites, and it has been several years since these two masterworks have experienced such authorative performances.
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I've been especially partial to their playing of Mozart.
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Laughed reading your comment about "improvisations"--I took piano for 11 years, but having lived for 8 years, sans piano, I've reached the playing nadir where the simplest Mozart piece sounds like weird atonal dissonance.
Fixing a Hole
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the young Mozart's prodigious talents
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Nothing gives me more pleasure than listening to Mozart.
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Witt's music is strongly Mozartian in phrasing and flavor, so much so that he sometimes sounds like a clone of the famous composer.
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My taste in classical music varies greatly/widely, but I usually prefer Mozart or Brahms.
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Do you prefer classical music like Mozart and Mahler, or pop?
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Mozart had obtained by force the words that suited him; his music reanimated the mystery of the mythic theme with a prodigious power of invention.
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The violinist, Ma, plays the opening bars of a Mozart sonata, and the unaccustomed cadences and harmonies of classical western melody are like strange birdsong.
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While many of these seemingly impervious works belong to Mozart, Verdi’s Falstaff is another.
Archive 2008-08-01
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This painting of Mozart at age 21 in Bologna, is from Wikipedia. org.
Happy Birthday, Amadeus! 250!
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She is clearly the villainess of the piece, but Mozart's music gives her a complexity the plot does not, and Brook highlights it.
Howard Kissel: Peter Brook's "A Magic Flute"
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He is quite an original thinker and really did invent the idea of Mozart as a brat so convincingly that now most people think it's fact.
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Piau here has a lightness of touch which sits perfectly with the Mozart.
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This combination of instruments was still in vogue in the time of Haydn and Mozart, and was used in most of their works for the Church except that they sometimes added two flutes, two clarinets (woodwind instrument of ancient origin, so called on account of the resemblance of its tones to the high tones of the clarino, or trumpet), and two trumpets.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Hearing them side by side was an education as well as a pleasure and Shelley's judicious summing-up of their stylistic differences revealed much about the 26-year-old Mozart's developing genius.
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Singers performing Mozart's operas often dress in/wear historical costume.
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LYCEUM CHAMBER CONCERT, by the Eastmont Trio, works by Mozart and Dohnanyi. 3 p.m., the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.,
Alexandria and Arlington community events, Aug. 19-26, 2010
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The concert includes Mozart's Requiem, Missa Brevis, operatic arias and music for the Christmas season.
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But the text of Rex tremendae is part of the Dies irae sequence, not the other way round, and there is no trace of the Dies irae plainchant in Mozart's setting.
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A musician one day asked Beethoven whether it was true that Sussmayer - not Mozart - had composed the Requiem.
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These were troubled times for Mozart: his father and four children all died, Constanze was very ill and financial problems beset him as the economy took a downturn and musicians found themselves unemployed.
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During the autumn Mozart was commissioned by the emperor to write another opera buffa, again to a libretto by Da Ponte.
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Another important thing about Mozart to keep in mind is that his father was also a successful musician, as well as a _successful teacher_ of music who saw that his son had talent devoted a lot of time and effort towards making that talent bloom as much as possible.
Miracle At St. Anna
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A century before Mozart, the virtuoso violinist and composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was appointed to the music staff of the archiepiscopal court of Salzburg.
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It's a compilation of two night-themed serenades by Mozart, a ‘toy symphony’ by his father, and three Mozart-inspired works by composers from the former Soviet Union.
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By 22, Gandhi has three kids, Mozart, 30 symphonies. But Buddy Holly was dead.
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Mozart is famed for his musical innovations and the opera included some very difficult music.
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Mozart's late dramma serio per musica ‘La clemza di Tito’ is supposed to be both funny and slightly daffy - and this was no exception.
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But in Salzburg, a land laved by mists and mountain air, all the star-power in the world fades away before the glory of Mozart, its most illustrious son.
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He conducted it with flair, brio, and real Mozartean style.
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Sticking most in my craw is having to miss the Long Beach Opera's "No Mozart" show, honoring the composer's anniversary year by featuring none of his music but three works by Nyman, Andriessen, and Part about Mozart and his legacy.
Archive 2006-09-01
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Romans were strangers to the classical tradition; Mozart and Beethoven were never performed, and there were no public concerts.
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I tuned the shortwave radio to a Mozart concert and sat there in semi-darkness, smoking up an indoor fog of my own and feeling about as low as I've ever felt, before or since.
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Too many notes" -- Emperor commenting on Mozart's first opera, in Amadeus
Paul Abrams: October Surprise: Two Ads That Could Turn the Mid-Terms on its Head
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In lieu of the Mahler, Eschenbach offered Mozart's Symphony No. 34, the last of his Salzburg symphonies -- familiar and fresh and not heard often from an orchestra that was rather underfed in the Mozart department under Leonard Slatkin.
Eschenbach, Mozart, Mahler and the NSO -- getting along famously
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Pires is best known as an outstanding Mozart interpreter, and she brings a very Mozartian sense of balance and nuance to her Beethoven.
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It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees.
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My taste in classical music varies greatly/widely, but I usually prefer Mozart or Brahms.
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His tinkling take on Karma Police, for instance, calls to mind Mozart's piano concertos, while Everything in Its Right Place, with its bottom-end minor notes, is dourly reminiscent of Shostakovich - and all free of Yorke's watery squall.
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At some point, I'll find a knife to stick in the notion that the plummiest of vibrating singers and this lot are plummy must be accompanied in Mozart by that lean-mean-string-thing, that silly period-practice-equals-no-vibrato tokenism...
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