Adam Fischer, the conductor, co-founded the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt in Austria in 1987 and established the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra.
Performer Biography
The Danish National Chamber Orchestra, led by Adam Fischer, is recording all of Mozart's opere serie, with several already released.
Composition History
Seven of the symphonies previously attributed to Mozart were later found not to be by him, and Symphony No. 37 was mostly by Michael Haydn.
Compositional Technique
In Mozart's childhood and youth, a symphony was often a three-movement introduction to a play, cantata, opera, or sacred work, rather than a standalone piece.
Composer Biography
Many music-lovers believe Mozart wrote 41 symphonies, but he actually composed around 70.
Recording & Production
This recording project consulted Neal Zaslaw's studies and selected 44 symphonies considered authentic by scholarship, excluding doubtful works and truncated serenades.
Composition History
The traditional numbering of Mozart's symphonies, from 1 to 41, was established by the music publisher Breitkopf & Härtel in 1879.
