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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 40 & Don Giovanni Overture

9/23/2022, 8 Tracks, 56:59

Featuring

  • Julien Chauvin
  • Andreas Staier
  • Le Concert de la Loge
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Composition History

The manuscript for Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 reveals two distinct phases of composition, with the first eight leaves of the first movement dating from 1784 and the rest from two years later.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Mozart, in his Symphony No. 40, showed a fierce urge to go beyond existing musical fashions and genres, seeking new modes of expression.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Mozart's Overture to Don Giovanni is believed to have been composed in a single night, just before the opera's premiere in Prague on October 29, 1787.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Mozart's widow, Constanze, sold over four hundred of his autograph manuscripts en bloc in 1800 to publisher Johann André to pay off household debts.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

In the finale of Mozart's Symphony No. 40, a succession of dissonant intervals creates a full chromatic scale, which the album notes humorously refer to as the birth of the twelve-note series.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

The fortepiano used by Andreas Staier for this recording is a copy by Christoph Kern, based on an instrument from around 1790 by Anton Walter, a prominent piano maker in Mozart's era.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

The nickname 'La Dodécaphonique' for Symphony No. 40 was chosen by the musicians of Le Concert de la Loge following a contest proposed to their concert audience.

Source: Booklet

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