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Mozart & Beethoven: Piano Quintets

6/15/2014, 6 Tracks, 49:03

Featuring

  • Owen Watkins
  • Geoffrey Burgess
  • Marc Vallon
  • Todd Williams
  • Penelope Crawford
  • Cambini Winds
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

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Critical Reception

Mozart proudly asserted in a letter to his father that his Quintet, K. 452, was his best composition and that its inaugural performance showed it in a very favorable light.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Mozart's Quintet, K. 452, is a sophisticated hybrid of a wind serenade and a chamber concerto, featuring a three-movement format with an introductory slow section.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Mozart created a unique musical genre in 1784 with his Quintet for piano and winds, K. 452, which inspired many later works for the same instrumentation.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Beethoven dedicated his Quintet, Op. 16, to Prince Joseph Johann zu Schwartzenberg, a significant music patron in Vienna, possibly hoping to gain his support.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Beethoven's Quintet in E Flat Major, Op. 16, composed in 1796, was clearly modeled on Mozart's K. 452 and belongs to Beethoven's early years in Vienna under Haydn's guidance.

Source: Booklet

Interpretation

The performers on this album, Cambini Winds and Penelope Crawford, use period instruments to reveal the richness of this unusual genre as the composers imagined.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Mozart's Quintet in E Flat Major, K. 452, was likely finished just two days before its premiere at a benefit concert on April 1st, 1784.

Source: Booklet

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