1. MUSIC THROUGH THE AGES Thursday, February 11 th

2. OBJECTIVES  Review Mozart  Continue to Mozart’s Symphonies and Piano Works  Begin Mozart’s Opera’s  Happy Thursday!

3. REVIEW  What were the years of Mozart? Where was Mozart born?  What was Mozart’s primary instrument? Who was his first teacher?  At what age did Mozart begin composing?  What is the Galant Style? What is a Cadence?

4. MOZART MEETS HAYDN  In 1783, Mozart completes his Mass in C minor with Constanze singing the soprano solos  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuFA3DmglwI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuFA3DmglwI  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVL2V8GQpgw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVL2V8GQpgw  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grl1ZvUBoXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grl1ZvUBoXY  In 1784, Mozart meets Haydn and the two become great friends  Haydn offers Mozart supplemental lessons, but for the most part the two play music together  Mozart writes six string quartets dedicated to Haydn (K. 387, 421, 428, 458, 464 and 465)

5. PERFORMING CAREER  In 1785, Haydn told Leopald Mozart, “I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.”  From 1782-1785, Mozart composed 3-4 new piano works each week and performed them all around Vienna  This led him into his second opera writing session from 1786-87 where he wrote some of his most critically acclaimed operas: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.  Eine Kleine Nachtmusik was also written during this time  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FSN8_pp_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FSN8_pp_o

6. PIANO WORKS OF MOZART  Piano Concerto in Eb Major K. 271 – Watched  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztEjqpSaJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztEjqpSaJA  Vienna Piano Concertos – written primarily to please a wide array of listeners and occupied most of his compositional output during his earlier time in Vienna.  Follow traditional three-movement pattern in fast-slow-fast sequence.  Often the second movement resembles an aria-like writing style with solo lines flowing out of the piano.  The whole works were written and epitomize the sonata-form.

7. PIANO CONCERTO’S  His most notable early piano concerto’s are K 413, 414 and 415  These provide a balance between easy, medium and hard difficulty levels.  Here, is K. 415  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqxr0gwq3tY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqxr0gwq3tY

8. MOZART’S LATER PIANO CONCERTOS  Mozart’s later Concertos show a much more refined and complex compositional style than we have seen earlier.  K 466, 467 and 488 are ideal examples of this.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM8CFR01KwQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM8CFR01KwQ  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2uYb6bMKyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2uYb6bMKyI  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0XfwmiPCA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0XfwmiPCA0

9. MOZART’S LATE SYMPHONIES  Mozart’s late Symphonies are a direct representation of his seriousness, much like Haydn and his later Symphonies.  Mozart’s later Symphonies actually are said to have directly influenced Haydn’s later Symphonies.  These Symphonies include: K. 385 Haffner, K. 425 Linz, K. 504 Prague, K. 543 in Eb Major, K. 550 in G minor and K. 551 in C major nicknamed Jupiter.

10. THE LATE SYMPHONIES  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROUdYQWHWUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROUdYQWHWUk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWKqAALQztw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWKqAALQztw  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDVFSJ2OcGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDVFSJ2OcGo  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CpA7tlVqN4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CpA7tlVqN4  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps1GsP_7TvY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps1GsP_7TvY  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK5295yEQMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK5295yEQMQ  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcly8-RGhgw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcly8-RGhgw

11. MOZART REQUIEM  Started in 1791, but was never finished by Mozart  It is his greatest choral/orchestral work he ever created  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88xIIRDI9U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88xIIRDI9U  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8GZ_W5XjW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8GZ_W5XjW0  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHw4GER-MiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHw4GER-MiE

12. TERMS TO KNOW  Opera Buffa (Opera Comique)- a genre or style of opera that classifies an opera as a comic/comedic opera  Opera Seria – an opera that is in a more “serious” style and predominated Europe from 1710-1770.  Requiem Mass – is a eucharist service in the Roman Catholic church to remember someone who has died. Typically in Latin and contains “Requiem aeternam done eis, Domine.” (Give them eternal rest, O Lord)