MozartForum - MozartForum Discussion http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum General Discussion Topics en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:17:19 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/images/misc/rss.jpg MozartForum - MozartForum Discussion http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum Back to Deutsch http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4547&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:17:16 GMT In a thread about Otto Erich Deutsch I was grateful to see a photograph of his grave in the Vienna central cemetery. That was terrific.

However, in a so far failed attempt to locate a picture of the man, I found the following reference to his placement in the cemetery. It states, "Deutsch is interred in an honorary grave of the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, no. 12)."

What is an "honorary grave"? I'm not familiar with the term.

And second, might anyone on this list have a photograph of the man? I've searched google pictures and many other sites and can find no image of him.

Dan Leeson ]]> MozartForum Discussion dnleeson http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4547 Nozze de Figaro. Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal Dec 2 1868 http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4546&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:39:57 GMT Judy At The Opera Judy At The Opera
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]]> MozartForum Discussion mpaula http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4546 Mystery Opera Overture http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4545&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:29:55 GMT 6September2010

Greetings.
I acquired a Mozart Opera Overtures CD
without any liner notes or track listing.
I've managed to identify all the tracks except one.
I could (one way or another) provide the mystery track
to anyone who might be able to identify the track for me.

Any helpful replies appreciated.
Thank you.
Regards,
AEN
Æ ]]> MozartForum Discussion AEN007 http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4545 Attention Southern Californians! Zaïde! http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4544&goto=newpost Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:15:50 GMT A rare treat is coming in February in Pasadena and Santa Monica. Zaïde wiil be performed live! Here are the details: http://www.musicaangelica.org/concerts/orchestral/concerti/ Hope you can make it! --Catherine Carl A rare treat is coming in February in Pasadena and Santa Monica. Zaïde wiil be performed live! Here are the details:

http://www.musicaangelica.org/concer...tral/concerti/

Hope you can make it!

--Catherine Carl ]]> MozartForum Discussion Catherine Carl http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4544 Picture identification http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4543&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:49:10 GMT Can anyone identify either the painter or the approximate date of the attached image, which is one of about six such portrayals of Mozart's final death scene?

Dan Leeson
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]]> MozartForum Discussion dnleeson http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4543 The Violin Sonatas http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4542&goto=newpost Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:37:10 GMT Hi friends,

I don't know why, but I never found reason to buy or listen to the violin sonatas. They don't get much prominence in any of the biographies I've read, and so as a newcomer to Mozart, I've tended to concentrate mainly on his great piano works, operas and other chamber pieces, but not the violin sonatas.

But I want this to change! Can anyone recommend a "way in" to these works? Maybe recordings that inspire, or a list of the best ones? I know, vague question, but I'd like to get acquainted with these works and would like to know where to start. What are your experiences of these compositions?

Many thanks! ]]> MozartForum Discussion Kieran http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4542 Mozart Letters, ed. Anderson http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4541&goto=newpost Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:33:24 GMT Hi, I'm a newbie here. I've just read the biographical details of the Moderators of this site and am impressed. I belong to one other classical music site and have merely looked at a couple of others. Some are not very good and seem to attract some ratbags who talk rubbish, but I'm hoping this one is much better! I'm a classical music "tragic" - Beethoven and Bach No. 1, Brahms and Handel No. 2, and Schubert and Mozart No. 3; the rest No. 4!!! I have Musicology major and play piano so an serious about discussions, but don't mind a bit of humour too.

I have the Complete Letters of Mozart, ed. Anderson. I guess lots of you have read these. Do members think Mozart had Aspurger's Syndrome, or similar? (I think I have the spelling correct). It seems that his tics and repetitions would suggest that, together with his nonsensical ramblings at times. What do others think? (I have some knowledge of the condition from my career as a high school teacher - now retired). ]]> MozartForum Discussion Counterpoint http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4541 Prague - Villa Betramka closed??? http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4540&goto=newpost Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:07:44 GMT Dear Forumers,

I just have read on the internet that the Mozart Museum "Villa Bertramka" at Prague was closed on 1 November 2009. But they don't tell why.

Has anyone details? Thanks in advance.

Kind regards from

Bavaria ]]> MozartForum Discussion Bavaria http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4540 National Public Radio Broadcast http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4539&goto=newpost Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:56:06 GMT National Public Radio in the United States and Canada puts on certain radio and tv programs on an area by area basis. Thus, if I see or hear a program in the Western part of the United States, it may have already been shown elsewhere, or perhaps not shown anywhere else. Last evening (8/24) was an... National Public Radio in the United States and Canada puts on certain radio and tv programs on an area by area basis. Thus, if I see or hear a program in the Western part of the United States, it may have already been shown elsewhere, or perhaps not shown anywhere else.

Last evening (8/24) was an absolutely perfect Mozart night. What was shown was a 2006 celebratory concert for the 250th birthday in Salzburg, consisting of a variety of fabulous singers (Thomas Hampson, Rene Pape, Michael Schade, Anna Netrebko, Patricia Petitbon, and others whose names I do not remember). Every one was in spectacular vocal estate. The arias included Parto, Parto from Titus, Se Il Padre Perdi and Elettra's aria, both from Idomeneo. Pape did the Madamina from Don G., and Hampson did an aria excised from Cosi, "Rivolgete a lui lo sgardo" and which was presented as a concert aria.

The concert ended with the Vienna Phil (Daniel Harding conductor) in much reduced form, performing the Prague symphoy.

That was some night!!

Dan Leeson ]]> MozartForum Discussion dnleeson http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4539 Mozart Against Violence http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4538&goto=newpost Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:23:10 GMT I appologize for bringing this up once more. But I can’t help feeling this is one the many divine moments in Mozart’s art that can stand a repetition or two: Music annihilating violence! The first clip is from Bergman’s film version of The Magic Flute. The second from Covent Garden’s production... I appologize for bringing this up once more. But I can’t help feeling this is one the many divine moments in Mozart’s art that can stand a repetition or two: Music annihilating violence! The first clip is from Bergman’s film version of The Magic Flute. The second from Covent Garden’s production some years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E9Y3JwxopQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwcAqUEBJI ]]> MozartForum Discussion Bjorn Hovik http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4538 NY Times exlpores the death of Mozart http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4537&goto=newpost Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:07:23 GMT from 8/24/10:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/ar...h.html?_r=1&hp ]]> MozartForum Discussion larryb http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4537 Davide Penitente http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4536&goto=newpost Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:35:21 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/ar...nitente&st=cse

This link should take you to the New York Times of Monday, Aug. 23, within which is an interesting review of a rarely heard Mozart cantata, Davide Penitente, produced as part of New York's Mostly Mozart festival. According to the reviewer (the Times very best, in my opinion), the program notes indicated that the Italian text for the cantata is by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

For some time, Da Ponte's contributions to Mozart's music were suggested to have gone beyond the three operas for which Da Ponte served as the librettist, and it is often said that he made several other textual contributions as well. I do not know of any proof that he composed the text for Davide Penitente, but it is quite possible that he did so.

The cantata contains music that Mozart recycled from the unfinished c minor mass. As such, when various arrangers have tried to complete the mass -- for example, Robert Levin's most interesting completion, now both published and recorded -- they look to the cantata for possible source material.

Dan Leeson ]]> MozartForum Discussion dnleeson http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4536 <![CDATA[Absurd Mozart 'idealizations']]> http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4535&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:49:59 GMT Hello,

I went into a specialist classical music store last week and saw a bust of 'Mozart' with Hollywood-style 'chiseled' features (no pun int). Are we still such a primitive people that we need our artists to be so perfect-looking? Is that why the British public were so overwhelmed with shock that Susan Boyle could, let's face it, 'carry a tune'? Since when have talent and looks been analogous traits?

By all accounts, Mozart had a large head, pockmarked face, rather a large nose and prominent forehead. But what does that have to do with talent? ]]> MozartForum Discussion jimallanmusic http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4535 <![CDATA[Question about "parody" mass settings]]> http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4534&goto=newpost Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:00:04 GMT Good day,

while browsing through the entries in the RISM database I came across a "parody" mass based on movements from Mozart's piano concertos, compiled by a certain H. Wieser.

My question is if there are any other mass settings of such kind? So far I have read only about the so-called "Cosi fan tutte"-mass.

A. ]]> MozartForum Discussion Agrell http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4534 Caricaturist asking your advice http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4533&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:22:31 GMT Hi, Friends!

I've been working on a caricatures collection of great historical figures. Mozart will be include, as some other major musicians, so I thought you might be curious to see it.
Now, I need some feedback about the drawings and some advice about some options of the business that are still open. So, I prepared a brief presentation of the idea, with some few direct questions about it.
For those of you who are willing to help me, here is my caricatures presentation. It will take just 2 or 3 minutes.

I would be most appreciated if you give me your advice! :)
Thank you! ]]> MozartForum Discussion Frederico Rogeiro http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=4533