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Jan 31, 2024 · 31 January 2024, 12:08. The 15 best pieces of music by Mozart. Picture: Getty. By Siena Linton. Mozart was a prolific composer, writing everything from operas, symphonies and concertos, to choral works, string quartets and smaller ensembles. Here are his 15 greatest of all time. Listen to this article. Loading audio...
- The Shaffer Effect
- Timeless Genius
- A Question of Performance
- Divine Intervention
- The God of Music
The most influential and widespread impression of Mozart was created in Milos Forman's 1984 film Amadeus which, with barefaced cheek, was advertised with the mendacious slogan 'Everything you have heard is true!' Adapted from a play by Peter Shaffer, Amadeus introduced legions of cinema-goers to the exuberant perfection of Mozart's musical genius. ...
Mitsuko Uchidasupports the portrayal of Mozart as a child genius: 'I find his music mysteriously beautiful, and he becomes more mysterious as he gets older. He has such special expressions. It is very clear he was born a genius.' Nikolaus Harnoncourtconcurs. 'The incredible thing for me is that there is no young Mozart or old Mozart. His genius is ...
Mozart's symphonies have consistently been at the forefront of the discography. Sir Neville Marriner remembers that the Academy of St Martin in the Fields 'was very accommodating when the big surge of companies recording everything anybody had ever written began. In order to make the catalogue complete record companies were looking for orchestras o...
It is peculiar that Mozart is beloved by choirs all over the world when his fame as a composer of choral music rests squarely on two unfinished works, dating from each end of his years in Vienna. Mozart started work on his great C minor Mass sometime between his marriage to Constanze Weber at St Stephen's Cathedral on August 4, 1782, and writing to...
For many performers, taking on Amadeus is a great privilege, and a heavy responsibility. Barbara Bonney, who names Susanna as her favourite Mozart role ('You are the motor that drives the entire show'), finds that Mozart demands, 'the purest and most honest form of singing. But Mozart was completely in love with pure high voices and women with lots...
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- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) Music poured out of Bach, all for the greater glory of God and, in Bach’s words, “the refreshment of the soul.” Organ music, church cantatas and incidental music for his employers were his daily bread.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) Forget all that stuff about taking dictation from God. Mozart was always working, teaching himself to be a better composer and trying to be more than just a maker of music.
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) It’s not just the tunes, the blazing triumphs, the thundering highlights or the contemplative hymns and the rhapsodies.
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) The beau idéal of the Romantic composer, Tchaikovsky, put Russian music on the European map. A devotion to Mozart, Bellini and Donizetti reflects his own endless melodic gifts, which he yoked to a brilliant orchestral sense, plus his own very intense emotionality.
But Mozart had a whole second career as a path-breaking opera composer. Such incredible range should give him the edge. Still, I’m going with Beethoven for the second slot.
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Dec 14, 2023 · Mozart may have been the greatest composer of all time. With nearly 600 works to his credit, he transformed the symphony, composed some of the greatest operas ever written, and transformed chamber music into one of the most inventive and celebrated forms of music in history.
Apr 4, 2022 · Though a handful of internet listings placed Mozart and Beethoven at the top, the vast majority acknowledged Johann Sebastian Bach as the undisputed greatest classical composer of all time....
