Mozart's concert on March 23, 1783

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The concert of Mozart on 23 March 1783 was in the old Vienna Burgtheater under the supervision and participation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart given. Own compositions of various genres were played; Mozart conducted the concert from the piano. It was one of six concerts he gave in Vienna in the first half of 1783, and at the same time it was his first own academy in this hall, which marked his establishment as a freelance musician.

program

Since Mozart moved to Vienna, he has held musical academies every year during Lent before Easter. In the fasting academy on January 23, 1782 he played pieces from Idomeneo , the piano concerto in D major KV 175 with the newly composed Rondo KV 382 and a free imagination. This concert, and especially the Rondo movement, met with great enthusiasm from the audience, whereupon Mozart and the concert organizer Philipp Jakob Martin launched the Augartenkonzerte in May of that year .

In the fasting academy on March 23, 1783, only compositions by Mozart were played. These included the world premieres of the new version of the “Haffner” symphony , which was divided into two halves, which framed the program. The piano concerto in C major KV 415 was also performed here for the first time. Mozart also included the piano concerto and rondo in D major.

Mozart was able to win three singers he knew as soloists: the sopranos Aloisia Lange and Therese Teyber and the tenor Josef Valentin Adamberger . Mozart had already supported his sister-in-law Aloisia's academy on March 11th. There he performed his Paris Symphony in D major KV 297 and one of his piano concertos, the rondo of which was repeated as an encore. Mozart thanked Teyber by playing the piano concerto in C major KV 415 and a solo improvisation at her own academy a week later on March 30th.

In a letter to his father Leopold Mozart dated March 29, 1783, Mozart outlined the following program of his academy:

"Haffner" Symphony, D major (KV 385)

01. Allegro con spirito
02. Andante
03. Menuetto

Idomeneo , Rè di Creta (KV 366)

04. Ilia: Se il padre perdei , sung by Aloisia Lange

Piano Concerto No. 13 , C major (KV 415)

05. Allegro
06. Andante
07. Allegro

Aria for soprano (KV 369)

08. Misera, dove son! -Ah! Non son'io che parlo , sung by Josef Valentin Adamberger

"Posthorn" Serenade, D major (KV 320)

09. Concertante-Andante grazioso

Piano Concerto No. 5 , D major (KV 175)

10. Allegro
11. Andante ma un pocco adagio

Rondo for piano and orchestra, D major (KV 382)

12. Rondo

Lucio Silla (KV 135)

13. Giunia: Parto, m'affretto , sung by Therese Teyber
14. At this point Mozart played "a little fugue on his own because the kayser was there" (not known)

6 variations for piano (improvised in concert) (KV 398)

15. Salve tu, Domine from the opera I filosofi immaginarii by Giovanni Paisiello

10 variations for piano (KV 455)

16. Our stupid rabble thinks about a theme from the opera La Rencontre imprévue by Christoph Willibald Gluck

Aria for soprano (KV 416)

17th Rondo: Mia speranza adorata! - Ah, non sai, qual pena sia il doverti , sung by Aloisia Lange

"Haffner" Symphony, D major (KV 385)

18. Presto

success

According to the concert report in the magazine Magazin der Musik published by Carl Friedrich Cramer in Hamburg , Mozart's compositions were very popular at the time. The concert was sold out and became a financial and artistic success.

Among the audience was Emperor Joseph II , who had paid 25 ducats in advance as an entrance fee , which corresponded to 112 guilders , 30 kreuzers . The Magazin der Musik estimated that Mozart earned a total of 1,600 guilders, from which he had to pay for the concert.

In the letter mentioned above, Mozart describes the success of his academy as follows:

“I don't think it will be necessary to tell you much about the success of my academy, you may have heard it already. Enough; the theater couldn’t have been fuller, and everyone was lying. - The best thing for me was that his Mayestätt the kayser was also present, and how cheerful he was, and what loud applause he gave me; ... "

On March 30, the emperor also attended Therese Teyber's academy.

Re-performances

The concert program has been performed again occasionally in recent times. On January 27, 1991, the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta played at Avery Fisher Hall . They opened a Mozart Festival, which the Lincoln Center organized on the occasion of the 200th year of Mozart's death, and in the course of which all of his compositions were to be performed. On February 6, 2006 the program was played by the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne with the soprano Rachel Harnisch under the direction of the pianist Christian Zacharias in an event organized by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna at the Wiener Musikverein .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Mozart Chronicle ( Memento of the original dated November 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for the Mozart manual published by Laaber-Verlag, compiled by Claudia M. Knispel (PDF download) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / s140507527.online.de
  2. ^ Eduard Hanslick (1867): Viennese Virtuoso Concert in the Last Century , page 266
  3. ↑ Christoph Wolff (Ed.): New Mozart Edition , Work Group 15: Concerts for one or more pianos and orchestra, Volume 3 . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1976, page X.
  4. ^ Letter from Mozart to his father dated April 12, 1783
  5. ^ Letter from Mozart to his father dated March 29, 1783
  6. ↑ Sebastian Rother (2006): "Just wish that everything be to your liking."
  7. ^ Peter G. Davis: Mozart Express, in New York Magazin , No. 3 , January 21, 1991, ISSN  0028-7369 , p. 72
  8. ^ Concert program of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

source

  • Eduard Hanslick , Viennese virtuoso concert in the previous century , in: Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria: Yearbook for Regional Studies of Lower Austria , 1867, pp. 239–281

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