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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Mozart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Genius of Mozart is a 1998 music album by Michael Maxwell, released by Avalon Records, and featuring musical works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
415 (387b) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1782–83.
Mozart seems to have originally intended, judging from sketches (Girdlestone, Mozart and his Piano Concertos) a C minor slow movement for this concerto - perhaps he judged it not appropriate for the mood of the work.
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 Allegro in C for Keyboard - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It is an extremely short piece (just 15 seconds long), likely notated by his father, Leopold Mozart, since Wolfgang was five years old at the time.
It is normally performed on the harpsichord, and is in the key of C. As the word allegro in its name suggests, it is a fast and lively piece.
The piece is unlike Mozart's only previous work - the Andante in C, in that it does not operate on repeated phrases.
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 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Joseph died shortly afterwards, but Mozart's hope of being appointed by Leopold II Kapellmeister in place of Salieri was not fulfilled.
Mozart deferred work on it to compose an adaptation of Metastasio's La clemenza di Tito for Leopold II's coronation as King of Bohemia in Prague in Sept. This prod.
The circumstances of Mozart's death have given rise to many sensational theories, none proved, and there is much medical speculation on the cause of death.
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 The New Instrumental Schools | Classical Music
It is in C major and has only two movements, a Presto and a rondo ('spiritoso') - there is no Adagio or Andante.
The impetUs and functional use of ornamentation are taken from the great Neapolitan and rearranged within the piano's symphonic possibilities, culminating in a coda that has a majesty unknown (at least on the piano) even to Mozart and that must have appealed greatly to the tWenty-year-old Beethoven, who was a great admirer of this piece.
One fugue transcribed by Clementi comes from Mozart's Requiem; J. Bach's French Suite in G major (BWV 816) also appears (with the order of the movements rearranged) as a difficult exercise in finger technique - a different world from the fugue, the chorale and the Lutheran parishes.
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 Dean's Den: Fugues and Fugue Sets
Prelude I: andante -- Fugue I: allegro -- Prelude (nocturne) II: andante -- Fugue II: allegro energico.
Fugues on the Magnificat for Organ or Keyboard (95 Preludial Fugues).
Since the opening notes are each spaced only two or three inches apart on the keyboard, those who could imagine it being played by a cat gave it the title by which it is known today.
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 Records International Catalogue August 1998
All three of his published quintets are powerful and dramatic, with forward-looking intermezzo-ish movements in place of traditional slow movements and fast movements which are lively, effervescent and dazzling, full of surprising modulations and daring chromaticisms as well as abundant melodic invention.
Formerly listed as K.55-60, these sonatas are generally thought no longer to be by Mozart but by someone of the same period, possibly associated with the young master and certainly of significant talent.
ROBIN HOLLOWAY (b.1943): Serenade in C, Fantasy-Pieces on the Heine "Liederkreis" of Schumann.
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 Arsis Press Compsers
She has also had performances by Dinosaur Annex, Alea II and Coro Allegro in Boston as well as the Cube in Chicago and the Helios Quartet in New Mexico.
A current project is a concerto for the 35th anniversary of the Pro Arte Orchestra for Charles Schlueter, first chair trumpet with the Boston Symphony.
A child star, Jeanne Shaffer sang on tour with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra and played Jeannette MacDonald as a child in the film, "Girl of the Golden West." As an adult she has continued singing, been a department head at Huntingdon College, and a church organist and choirmaster in Montgomery, Alabama.
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