Any Mozart Fans Out There?

[LADY DI]

Mozart is my favorite composer. His music is so awesome!
What are some of your favorite pieces?
I love everything he wrote!!!
Some of my most favorites are (of course) Eine Kline Nactmusik, piano concertos 9,17 and 27. Serenade for winds K 361. Concerto for two pianos K365.
Also I love his Mass in C minor and his operas!
Happy Listening!
Lady Di

 

[the Colonel]

Of course! Mozart is my favorite composer. It's a good choice too: probably the greatest number of pieces of all composers. Mozart is fun, simple, upbeat, and just plain good to listen to.

 

[reggsc]

Mozart is great to study to. Especially his more energetic pieces.

 

[Vulgivagus hagiographus]

Oh, I love Mozart! I really like playing Mozart pieces on the piano. Every judge I've ever played Mozart for says I've got the perfect touch for him.

By the way, I just bought his Requiem today and I'm listening to it. What great music!

 

[garydench]

Moazrt is also one of my favourite composers. I adore his operas; I can but laud his "Solemn Vespers" and I love his sonatas. Each time I listen to Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, I get shivers down my spine - something that only Bach and he have been able to do.

 

[SeRapH&CheRi]

Mozart's water music is probably one of the most beautiful pieces that I've heard and I can listen to it over and over again.

 

[LADY DI]

Mozart is great to study to. Especially his more energetic pieces.

Hi reggsc!!!

Yes Mozart is great to study to, also there was a study done a few years back that found that students who listened to Mozart while studying before a test, scored alot higher than those who didn't!!!!
So there really is something to his music!!!!
Di

 

[LADY DI]

Moazrt is also one of my favourite composers. I adore his operas; I can but laud his "Solemn Vespers" and I love his sonatas. Each time I listen to Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, I get shivers down my spine - something that only Bach and he have been able to do.

Hi Gary!!!

Yes, I too adore his operas!!!!
His sacred music is some of the most beautiful music ever written.

 

[trust]

ROCK ME AMADEUS!!

On a serious note- he is an inspiration to many but he's more like a musical mentor to me. I'm sure you've all seen 'Amadeus'. If you haven't, then GO!! Rent it or die!! Better yet, buy it!!!

 

[Něco hrubého oprýskaného 1]

Mozart's water music is probably one of the most beautiful pieces that I've heard and I can listen to it over and over again.

As far as "Water Music" goes, I think you mean Handel or John Cage. Well, maybe even Tod Dockstader.

 

[SeRapH&CheRi]

As far as "Water Music" goes, I think you mean Handel or John Cage. Well, maybe even Tod Dockstader.

Woops! You're totally right! It was Handel who composed the Water Music. I don't know why I thought of Mozart!

Did y'all know that Mozart started composing when he was 5 years old? Along with that, he also apparently had a "perfect pitch" - he could pretty much sing any note on command. He was brilliant!

 

[Něco hrubého oprýskaného 1]

I hope you don't mind if I tease you a little more!

All those crazy wunderkind stories! He very much deserves of all of that praise, but it's strange how many of the unbelievable events in his life were overlooked and supplanted by fabrications. Here's a good story from J. Svejda, prolly Mozarts biggest fan: "Mozart was never taught how to play the violin...one day, at the age of seven, he simply picked it up and that was that."

Keep in mind that Stravinsky, Ravel, and Wagner never had perfect pitch. It is a common mistake to associate perfect pitch with musical genius (Wikepedia).

I personally know a lot of people with perfect pitch that hardly qualify as "brilliant." I don't know if that old broadway music director, and now Late Show with David Letterman band leader, Paul Shaffer can be considered a genius...but he certainly has perfect pitch.

Perfect pitch can actually be a hindrance. I wouldn't know from experience, though...I don't have it either!

 

[garydench]

It's a nightmare if you've gone to see a show, and there's one instrument out of tune. My music teacher had perfect pitch, and was unable to teach us to listen and appraise properly.

 

[SeRapH&CheRi]

I hope you don't mind if I tease you a little more!

Actually, I do mind.

I personally know a lot of people with perfect pitch that hardly qualify as "brilliant."

It wasn't only because of his perfect pitch that I stated he was brilliant. His brilliance was also in reference to his other works.

Perfect pitch can actually be a hindrance. I wouldn't know from experience, though...I don't have it either!

I do.

 

[Něco hrubého oprýskaného 1]

Okay. What note am I thinking of right now?

Us relative-pitchers are tired of you clairaudients stealing the limelight!

 

[Alenci]

/me has a friend with perfect pitch- she's going to some piano competition in Ohio this summer

 

[garydench]

What's relative pitch then?

 

[UberLutheran]

Woops! You're totally right! It was Handel who composed the Water Music. I don't know why I thought of Mozart!

Did y'all know that Mozart started composing when he was 5 years old? Along with that, he also apparently had a "perfect pitch" - he could pretty much sing any note on command. He was brilliant!

Handel started out as a German Baroque composer, but his later works are decidedly Preclassical/Rococo.

If you look at Handel's Suite in B-Flat Major, which has the famous aria upon which Brahms took and wrote 25 variations and a fugue, the section following the introduction and the aria with three variations are decidedly preclassical in terms of formal and harmonic structure, and also the writing technique.

The early Haydn symphonies almost always use a harpsichord playing basso continuo -- but Haydn is considered a Classical composer; but even Haydn starts showing Romantic tendencies in the last six symphonies and the last oratorios.

 

[UberLutheran]

I really, really love the 38th and 39th Symphonies, and made my own piano transcriptions of both of them which I've played in my own recitals. Both of those transcriptions were labors of love.

His Wind Quintet (K. 452) is really neat -- and the second movement has one of those great "miracle passages" where Mozart suddenly breaks with Classical conventions and writes one of those jaw-dropping, shake your head in disbelief passages that anybody could have written such a thing in the 1780s -- and the whole quintet is tremendous fun to play! (The piano part is a beast to play -- and that's just fine by me, because I really like playing those kinds of pieces! )

The Kegelstatt Trio in E-Flat Major (K. 498) is also great fun to play.

His last choral motet, Ave Verum Corpus, always brings me to tears.

The next to the last scene of Don Giovanni[/i], where the stone statue of the Commodore appears and urges Don Giovanni to repent -- and then casts Don Giovanni off to Hell -- is the single most effective piece musical theater ever written, IMO. THAT is "scare the Hell out of you" music!

 

[Něco hrubého oprýskaného 1]

What's relative pitch then?

If you can recognize intervals, but not exact pitches (that car horn is in F!), then you have relative pitch.

For example, if you play me a chord (so I can't see your hands, obviously) and name one of the notes, I can figure out the rest of the notes in the chord.

Lots of solfege helps! Try to avoid using a piano when sight-singing. I'll get some heat for this (considering how sentimental pianist are about their instruments), but it's more or less too out-of-tune to be helpful.