The morning and the evening

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The morning and the evening is a small composition in the so-called gallant style by Johann Ernst Eberlin and Leopold Mozart for a mechanical organ, the Hornwerk Salzburger Stier , on the Hohensalzburg fortress above Salzburg.

The composition consists of twelve short movements that are assigned to the individual months:

1. For the Jenner: Aria (J. Eberlin)
2. For the Hornung: Carnival (L. Mozart)
3. For the Merz: Adagio (anonymous melody and variations as "Some small changes" by L. Mozart)
4. For April: Menueto (Eberlin)
5. For May: Menueto Pastorello (L. Mozart)
6. For the fallow month: Scherzo (L. Mozart)
7. For the hay month: Menueto (L. Mozart)
8. For the August month: Aria (Eberlin)
9. For the autumn month: The Hunt (L. Mozart)
10. For the wine month: Menueto (L. Mozart)
11. For the winter month: Menueto (Eberlin)
12. For the Christian month: The Lullaby (Eberlin)

In the foreword to the first edition, Leopold Mozart writes that the horn work “from time immemorial [...] only played one piece”, namely the anonymous melody for the Merz . The variations (“changes”) above were composed for the print edition.

The first print of the work appeared in 1759 under the title The morning and the evening, the residents of the Hochf. Residenz Stadt Salzburg announced melodically and harmoniously by Lotters Erben publishing house in Augsburg.

The small, pleasant work was composed for the Salzburg bull . This is a mechanical organ based on the principle of a barrel organ roller mechanism . It goes back to Prince Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach , who expanded the Hohensalzburg Fortress from 1500 and built a horn factory in 1502, which was supposed to give the inhabitants a signal for all kinds of purposes. After Johann Rochus Egedacher renewed this machine, "the rather worn horn work", in 1753 , the two composers, who were friends, published their joint work six years later. As L. Mozart explains in the preface, it was a commissioned work: To the piece for March, "the highly praiseworthy landscape had 11 other pieces added for a pleasant change [...]." For the anniversary of the bull in 2002, this hornwork was renewed Restoration.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information on this is taken from the edition Mozart, Leopold / Eberlin, Johann Ernst (Ed. Haselböck, Franz): "The morning and the evening" or "Twelve pieces of music for the clavier" [= Diletto musicale No. 588], 1974 and later, Vienna-Munich (Verlag Ludwig Doblinger)
  2. ↑ here always quoted from the modern print published by Döblinger
  3. ^ MGG sv Eberlin
  4. ↑ Leonhard von Keutschach
  5. ↑ L. Mozart in the foreword
  6. ↑ up there

literature

  • Rudolf Quoika: Old Austrian Horn Works , Berlin 1959.