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...almost all of his contemporaries, Mozart was just another court composer, more unconventional and therefore worse than scores of his competitors. The elderly Haydn recognized his genius; so did the young Beethoven. Not so Emperor Joseph II, Mozart's patron, who once said of a Mozart aria: "It has too many notes in it." ("Sire, just as many as there ought to be," Mozart retorted.) Nor did Mozart's wife Constanze (younger sister of his old love, Aloysia) see his greatness. She had her own creating to do. Of their nine years of marriage, she spent...
...18th century days of Mozart and Haydn, Europe was dotted with small opera houses that regularly gave light musical dramas or comedies of manners. Most of the houses were supported by the local duke or prince; most of the listeners were his personal guests. Their powdered periwigs bobbed together to the familiar rhythms on stage and they tittered behind lace kerchiefs at the coquettish young chambermaids, amorous old goats and desperately conspiratorial lovers. But these small houses in time were replaced by the giant "imperial" or "state" opera houses that are still standing, and the little drawing-room operas were...
...Haydn:Trumpet Concerto (Vanguard). Haydn's normally high spirits soar, even higher with Trumpeter George Eskdale...
...Radcliffe and Harvard groups joined forces at the end of the concert for the Credo from the Lord Nelson Mass, by Haydn, and Bach's Wir Sctzen Uns from the St. Matthew Passion. A freshman chamber orchestra accompanied the Passions' magnificent lullaby. The two choruses sang well together; in the future they should join forces for a larger portion of their joint concerts. Both Miller and Radcliffe's Cornelia Davenport conducted with an agreeable lack of interpretive mannerisms. They deserve credit for building the freshman choruses into a fine musical organization...
...searched the catalogue for less general courses, suitable for the non-concentrator, in individual composers or periods. There are none. Furthermore, during the last two years the range of such courses offered by the department has narrowed considerably. Such regularly given and quite popular courses as "The Symphony from Haydn to Piston" and "The String Quartets of Beethoven" are no longer available and apparently no step has been taken to give others in their place...