Although eighteenth-century Viennese keyboard music, especially by such composers as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, is among the most popular ever written, there has been surprisingly little serious research into the instruments for which it was composed. Consequently myths and guesses abound, while accurate and reliable information is hard to come ...
The concertos of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and their contemporaries are some of the most popular, and the most frequently performed, pieces of classical music; and the assumption has always been they were full orchestral works. This book takes issue with this orthodox opinion to argue quite the reverse: that contemporaries regarded the concerto as ...
The piece is divided into six short movements corresponding to the standard sections of the Mass. This feature, coupled with the compactness of the work and its modest scoring makes it ideal for performance in a liturgical context as well as in the concert hall. This edition is not only authoritative and scholarly but also is clear and practical ...
Suitable for SSATB soloists, double mixed chorus, and orchestra. This work includes a reconstructed Sanctus and Osanna taking full account of Mozart's vocal divisions, and completed the orchestration of the two Credo movements.
This text discusses Mozart's "Requiem" which was left incomplete when he died on 5 December 1791. The score of his "Requiem" which he had been attempting to finish, to fulfil an anonymous commission from Count Franz von Walsegg-Stuppach was eventually completed by his pupil and assistant, Franz Xaver Sussmayr on the request of Mozart's widow. ...
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