Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music available in several mutations: Schubert's "Trout" Quintet can be bought without piano, violin, viola, cello or bass. The company's bestseller (20,000 copies) is a household nightmare: Rhythm Section Backgrounds for budding vocalists and various instruments. The best classical seller is an album of Mozart quartets for either violin or flute. Recently, for those who would like something grander than Sing Along with Mitch, Music Minus One began recording famous operas-minus singers...
...Munich Opera House has long rested much of its reputation on those two sturdy musical pillars, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss. Last week, as if to say that anything these two composed is worth audition, Munich opened its summer opera festival with two of the lamest and most persistently neglected of Mozart's and Strauss's works: Thames, King of Egypt, which Mozart composed at a precocious 17, and Der Friedenstag, written when Strauss was a world-weary...
Thames was not even Mozart's idea. Conceived by a wealthy dilettante named Tobias Philipp von Gebler and scored by an obscure schoolmaster, the thing was such a botch that Gebler, taking a friend's advice, paid Mozart to write a new score. The composer did considerably better than the librettist. On Gebler's flimsy plot-the love of a young Pharaoh for a temple virgin-Mozart draped 22 minutes of delightful music that almost compensated for 81 minutes of unrelievedly boring talk. Nevertheless, Thames talked itself to death, closed shortly after its premiere in Vienna...
...career as a marine engineer to lead his Storyville Jazzmen into the trad boom, dressed in Stetsons and cutaway jackets and looking like the fallout from a Buttermilk Sky. Most trad jazz goes back only 35 years or so. but the Storyville septet has a bestselling version of Mozart's Alia Turca...
...Mozart: Concertos for Horn and Orchestra (Albert Linder, horn; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Hans Swarowsky; Vanguard). The four concertos Mozart wrote for horn are all beauties -full of pert, charming and sometimes humorous ideas put together with faultless style and taste. Danish Hornist Linder does them justice...