classical music - The Long and Winding Road https://longandwinding.goldwasserfamily.org Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:02:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Song of the day https://longandwinding.goldwasserfamily.org/song-of-the-day-52/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=song-of-the-day-52 https://longandwinding.goldwasserfamily.org/song-of-the-day-52/#respond Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:02:44 +0000 http://mykidsfamily.wordpress.com/?p=204 It’s been a while since I have had any classical music in the song of the day. I want to remedy that right now. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. By the age of 5 he … Continue reading →

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]]> It’s been a while since I have had any classical music in the song of the day. I want to remedy that right now.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. By the age of 5 he could repeat anything he heard played on the piano, and was even composing short pieces. His father took him around the world to show off his prodigy. Mozart later had positions in the courts of Salzburg and Vienne, writing over 600 compositions in his short life. He died a month and a half shy of his 36th birthday.

To this day Mozart is still one of the most influential composers in history and his music is staples in many orchestras’ repertoire.

There are many pieces in Mozart’s catalog that I love, and one of the best is the short Serenade No. 13 for stings in G major, K 525 (btw, in case anyone does not know, the K. number comes from a chronological list of Mozart’s work). This piece is better known as Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (a little night’s music). He composed this piece while he was working on the opera Don Giovanni. It is not known for whom or why he composed this piece, but it remains as one of his best known compositions.

Enjoy!

  1. Allegro
    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb_jQBgzU-I]
  2. Romanze: Andante
    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGK3zsbPj5Q]
  3. Menuett: Allegretto
    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AEuCXi185Q]
  4. Rondo: Allegro
    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as9K3iXY_dg]

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]]> https://longandwinding.goldwasserfamily.org/song-of-the-day-52/feed/ 0 Song of the day https://longandwinding.goldwasserfamily.org/song-of-the-day-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=song-of-the-day-3 https://longandwinding.goldwasserfamily.org/song-of-the-day-3/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:34:36 +0000 http://mykidsfamily.wordpress.com/?p=21 My musical interests are all across the board. While I am obsessed with anything Beatles, and I love most rock and pop music, I also have a love of classical music. This morning I was listening the one of my … Continue reading →

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]]> My musical interests are all across the board. While I am obsessed with anything Beatles, and I love most rock and pop music, I also have a love of classical music. This morning I was listening the one of my favorite pieces “The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi. This piece is perhaps the most popular pieces of Baroque music, and is notable for basically defining the modern solo concerto (a solo instrument with accompanying orchestra).”The Four Seasons” is actually a set of four separate violin concertos, each being named for a different season. Listen to them and even without any accompanying notes you can tell which concerto is which season.

There have been to many recordings of “The Four Seasons” to mention, and many of them very good. My current favorite (and one of the best) is a recording done by Itzhak Perlman accompanied by the Israel Philharmonic orchestra and conducted by Zubin Mehta. While my preference is for the third concerto, titled Autumn, here are videos of the three movements of the fourth concerto, Winter.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBq4ov5Y_84]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dggfA9Vo64U]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8DzsScxhBE]

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