This album adapts many of Mozart's sonatas for organ performance, inspired by C.P.E. Bach's practice of adapting works for different instruments.
Compositional Technique
Mozart's style is characterized by apparent simplicity, linearity, clarity, balance, transparency, and melodiousness, avoiding the 'frills of the extreme baroque tradition'.
Performer Biography
Manuel Tomadin, the organist on this album, has recorded works for Brilliant Classics using historical organs and has won numerous national and international organ contests, including the Grand Prix d' ECHO in 2011.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Mozart considered the organ 'the King of instruments', viewing it as an orchestra capable of rich sounds reminiscent of various instruments.
Instruments
The album features Manuel Tomadin playing the Andrea e Luigi Montesanti organ from 1788-1790, located in the Parish Church of Governolo, Italy.
Composer Biography
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a child prodigy, was playing short pieces at age four and composing at five, with his father Leopold calling him 'God's miracle born in Salzburg'.
Historical Context
During the Baroque period, it was common practice to compose for 'every sort of instrument', leading to orchestral symphonies and harpsichord sonatas often being played on the organ.
