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Abendempfindung an Laura", K. 523, is a song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dated June 24, 1787, in Vienna, written at the time of the opera Don Giovanni and Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Text [ edit ]
Va, dal furor portata", K. 21 / K 6 19c, is an early concert aria in C major for tenor and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was written 1765 in London during the Mozart family grand tour around Europe when Mozart was nine years old. The words are from Metastasio's Ezio, act 2, scene 4, by the character Massimo.
It has four sections: Exsultate jubilate – Allegro ()Fulget amica dies – Secco recitative Tu virginum corona – Andante ()Alleluja – Allegro (F major) Musicologist Stanley Sadie called the final section, "Alleluia", "a jewel of a piece with its high spirits and its wit ... like no other piece of Mozart's; its music speaks unmistakably of his relaxed high spirits at the time he wrote it ...
The original lyrics are probably by Mozart himself; [1] they include the words for "good night" in five different languages (Latin, Italian, French, English, and German). [2] [3] The phrase "gute Nacht, gute Nacht, / scheiß ins Bett daß' kracht", found in the fourth-to-last and third-to-last lines, closely resembles a similar expression found in a postscript to one of Wolfgang's letters by ...
After Mozart's death in 1791, his widow, Constanze, sent the manuscripts of the canons to publishers Breitkopf & Härtel in 1799 for publication. The publisher changed the vulgar title and lyrics of this canon to the more decent "Laßt froh uns sein" ("Let us be glad!"). Of Mozart's original text, only the first words were documented in the ...
Mozart himself very likely played the obbligato piano part (K. 490 has an extensive violin obbligato). The words to the aria have been thought to be by Lorenzo Da Ponte , [ 1 ] but they are in either case (K. 490 and K. 505), with the exception of the short recitative, exactly those of Giambattista Varesco 's original Idomeneo libretto of 1781.
For many years, the common view was that the melody was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and it was entered into the Köchel catalogue as K. 350. Attribution for the melody has since shifted to either Bernhard Flies or Friedrich Fleischmann , [ 1 ] and it has been removed from the main body of the Köchel catalogue and put into the appendix ...
Mozart's father, Leopold, was a notable name at the university, as many of his pupils were enrolled in the university high school, where theatre played a large role in the curriculum. [ 1 ] Mozart's first encounter with the university was at the age of five on September 1 and 3, 1761, when he appeared as an extra in Jakob Anton Wimmer and ...