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Happy 260th birthday, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!
January 27, 2016

Posted on 01/27/2016 6:15:30 PM PST by EveningStar

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, christened Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was born January 27, 1756.

He died December 5, 1791.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: classicalmusic; mozart; music
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To: EveningStar

We plan to watch Amadeus DVD this weekend.


41 posted on 01/27/2016 7:16:25 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: EveningStar

Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me!


Ha! Ha! Ha Ha Ha Ha!
42 posted on 01/27/2016 8:18:53 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: SkyDancer

The Making of Amadeus (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWeqBI-Xsj4


43 posted on 01/27/2016 8:23:46 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Publius

Just listened and watched it.

I have a question about an instrument. During the first movement the camera showed two horn players to the left of the drums. They looked like trumpets but were much too long to be trumpets.

Are they some type of special concert trumpet or some other type of horn?

Hope you can help me with this, I played the trumpet in my youth.


44 posted on 01/27/2016 8:25:19 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: txnativegop

Those are Baroque trumpets without valves, period instruments, so they are single-pitch trumpets. This means that there are some notes that the trumpets cannot reach. Composers of the period knew this and didn’t write those notes for the trumpet. It’s probably a C-trumpet. Trumpets with valves came later.


45 posted on 01/27/2016 8:32:21 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius

Thank you very much.


46 posted on 01/27/2016 8:34:27 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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47 posted on 01/27/2016 8:46:34 PM PST by petenmi
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To: Publius

beautiful smile from the lady cellist ...


48 posted on 01/27/2016 8:54:56 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: EveningStar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Lsr0-L7ZU

one of my personal favorites, the K.623 Freimaurercantata..


49 posted on 01/27/2016 9:10:50 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: EveningStar

here he kicks butt on the bassoon..

Bassoon Concerto K191
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYOPQuhdoQM


50 posted on 01/27/2016 10:03:55 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: mylife

51 posted on 01/27/2016 10:05:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Third Person

40, 41, and the Requiem is when Humanity reached its peak. Humanity has been in a downward spiral ever since.


52 posted on 01/27/2016 10:09:42 PM PST by Vision Thing (If 2016 is The Walking Dead, then Trump is Rick Grimes, and Cruz is Deanna.)
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Thanks to all for the links 8^)

While there I found this film, a biography with some music commentary...well done, I think.

BBC - The Genius of Mozart. ( 1 of 3 ). Miracle of Nature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc4XdUu-G5Q


53 posted on 01/27/2016 10:21:00 PM PST by deks
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To: EveningStar

the K285 Quartet... can’t help myself but I love the bassoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsJTehhmqoI


54 posted on 01/27/2016 10:26:41 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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