It should be noted that Mozart was hardly kind when scoring the operatic arias for the full lyric soprano. |
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But it is too simplistic to counterpose the idea of Mozart as a product of the Enlightenment to the idea of the composer as a born genius. |
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There surely must have been a hint of gold in music for woodwind and horns for Mozart to have dressed his offerings in such a resplendent manner. |
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Her favorites were the soulful climaxes of country-western ballads and the tutti passages of Mozart orchestral works. |
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From waltzes, tangos, swing to romantic tunes the band excels in the music of Mozart, Lizst and Scubert. |
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And I came away with the distinct impression that the Mozart Effect does not exist. |
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His elegant, meticulously phrased performances of Haydn and Mozart became legendary, as did his caustic, witty bons mots. |
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You can analyze a Mozart piano concerto note by note and still not fathom the genius of the whole piece. |
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Mozart is the superstore wallpaper of classical music, the composer who pleases most and offends least. |
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Even Mozart and Mahler were accepted abroad before they were grudgingly then ecstatically received at home. |
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Constanze emerges as a devoted wife, mother and lifelong promoter of Mozart. |
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Mathematical physics is like music, which a young and zesty spirit can best seize and use, as did Mozart. |
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And third, that Mozart was bundled unceremoniously into a pauper's grave with miscellaneous corpses on a snowy night. |
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Mozart had with him a B flat string quintet with two violas written when he was sixteen and just back from his third Italian journey. |
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I must note, however, the presence of a few very brief dropouts in the audio during both the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Mozart. |
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Pires is best known as an outstanding Mozart interpreter, and she brings a very Mozartian sense of balance and nuance to her Beethoven. |
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He is known for his brilliant bibliographical studies of watermarks in paper used by Mozart. |
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The programme includes the Mozart clarinet concerto, Vaughan Williams' Folk Song Suite and Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance. |
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People who listen to Mozart then score slightly higher on specific tests of cognitive function. |
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It is the essence of stunning creativity, whether embodied in a Picasso sculpture, a Mozart opera, or a phat video game. |
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So why did they select this genre for a ride as opposed to studying jazz or Mozart at the conservatorium? |
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Suddenly, months later, I find myself with fistfuls of Mozart, Schubert, and Ravel under my fingers and a quickly approaching recital engagement. |
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One Mozart manuscript actually includes what might be considered a musical game, though not played with dice. |
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Mozart shook his head with impatience and started to jig and dance about in the road. |
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In 1986 they produced a CD of Mozart lieder that immediately revealed the kind of artistry they were aiming at. |
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A year earlier the players had presented a programme of works by Bach, Vivaldi, and Mozart without any fuss or bother. |
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Whereas Mozart famously detested Salzburg, Zehetmair retains much fonder memories of his home town. |
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These include various compositions by Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Haydn, Beethoven and Purcell. |
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It will include harpists, a soprano soloist accompanied by the flute and spinet and music by Mozart as well as other lesser-known composers. |
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The group will play works by Mozart and Weber, and a selection of light classics. |
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The Salzburg Mozart Soloists appear regularly in the staterooms of the Mirabell Palace. |
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Still, any score by such an important composer, even one that plays quirky variations on themes by Mozart, is worth hearing. |
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When you realise how precocious was the talent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, you can only pray he was a nice kid. |
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Then as well we were treated to beautiful Mozart and Strauss music by a delightful quintet in traditional costume. |
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Mozart is famed for his musical innovations and the opera included some very difficult music. |
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He brought stylish performance practice to the music of the baroque and classical periods, especially Handel oratorio and Mozart opera. |
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Another explores the death of Mozart and Van Gogh as the result of haunting by lamia. |
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On the other hand Bach, despite his cantankerously quarrelsome nature, is seen as a genius superior even to Mozart. |
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Again, Mozart has never sounded better, and it is instantly obvious that the audio track has been remastered. |
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Mozart was offered an organist's post at Versailles, and sensibly declined. |
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All round, a flawless account, celebrating a Schubert who is as much the son of Haydn and Mozart as the father of Schumann and Brahms. |
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What more pleasure can there be than putting sound to Mozart in these elegant serenades? |
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Its rhythmic verve and thematic appeal carry it along, even if it sounds like Mozart warmed-over. |
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When the young Beethoven arrived in Vienna in 1792, the musical zeitgeist was defined by Haydn and Mozart. |
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From the opening notes of the Allegro vivace assai, the Berlin players conjured up Mozart in the best Viennese manner. |
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He declared that some of his best ideas came to him while listening to chamber music and Mozart operas. |
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No one would deny the transcendent beauty of Gregorian chant, the majesty of Gothic cathedrals, the classical clarity of Mozart and Haydn Masses. |
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It has attracted numerous polyphonic settings, by such composers as Victoria, Palestrina, and Mozart. |
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Louise covered my tracks and I got a hug from Sondheim, which in my book is one up on a French kiss from Mozart. |
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There's so much great music in the world, from jazz, to Mozart, to rock, to French Impressionism, to folk music, the avant-garde, etc. |
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Graffiti Classics' concert on August 11 includes Mozart and Hungarian dances. |
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As he proceeds to end it all, the young man hears a haunting Mozart melody emanating from an open window. |
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Deborah sings almost everything between Mozart and Maxwell Davies, and has a lovely voice! |
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Mozart is the dominant composer at the festival, which also has traditional and jazz aspects, including the red-hot tangos of Astor Piazzola. |
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It's a movement full of goofy stumbles, miles away from the suavity of Mozart and Classicism. |
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Mozart raises the accompaniment to share some of that interest, so that the violin and the piano speak on relatively equal terms. |
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Glazunov's Reverie was the original makeweight for the fourth side of the Mozart set. |
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In every case, Mozart was sharper, unhackneyed, and always threw in a little surprise. |
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Why Mozart composed the motet for Rauzzini and not a female soprano is not known. |
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Attwood attests that a partiality for the polyphonic music of JS Bach motivated Mozart to supplement his fortepiano with a pedal board. |
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However, I saw William Preucil, as concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, do a Mozart violin solo and had to pick my jaw up off the ground. |
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Haitink and the Dresden Staatskappelle will treat concert-goers to a programme of Mozart, Weber and Bruckner. |
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He is quite an original thinker and really did invent the idea of Mozart as a brat so convincingly that now most people think it's fact. |
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Jnacek's passionate second string quartet, which the composer himself entitled Intimate Letters, followed the Mozart. |
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Located in a villa where Mozart wrote Don Giovanni, the museum features sheet music, original concert posters, and numerous pianos. |
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His leisurely paced Mozart allowed for all the notes to be heard and was well spatialized. |
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The chocolate-box image of Mozart as a little miracle can be promptly banged on the head. |
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Even at the age of four, Mozart plays the harpsichord with stunning virtuosity, and is noted for his perfect pitch. |
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Anyone with even the most perfunctory interest in classical music will have their own favourite Mozart piece. |
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This interest has led to him collecting a large number of classical records and CD's from Mozart to the Beatles. |
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They were intrigued and learned something new about Mozart and aleatory music. |
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A really quiet and disciplined audience lost themselves in symphonies of Schubert and Mozart. |
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Because Mozart wrote for the basset horn in some 20 works, makers kept it available, and it was also used by Beethoven, Spohr, Mendelssohn, and Richard Strauss. |
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Who was the court kapellmeister in 1787 when Mozart was court composer? |
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Piau here has a lightness of touch which sits perfectly with the Mozart. |
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It is these characteristics that give these Mozart performances, with the violinist doubling as soloist and director of the OAE, such dash and vitality. |
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Every leading Classical composer, through Brahms, always used the Lydian mode and its Mozart treatment of Bach's Royal Theme, as a reference point of composition. |
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But now that any schmo can afford a Mozart CD or can go to a free museum, artists had to figure out new ways to differentiate themselves from the rabble. |
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They have done several biographical works on Mozart and Liszt. |
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If one ventures to wonder whether Haitink has the quicksilver mind necessary for Mozart, it is only because his Verdi and Wagner were superlative. |
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The violinist plays the opening bars of a Mozart sonata, and the unaccustomed cadences and harmonies of classical western melody are like strange birdsong. |
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I tuned the shortwave radio to a Mozart concert and sat there in semi-darkness, smoking up an indoor fog of my own and feeling about as low as I've ever felt, before or since. |
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Famous for his slow tempos and his cultivation of a titanic, monumental style, he was a superlative interpreter of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Mahler. |
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But in Salzburg, a land laved by mists and mountain air, all the star-power in the world fades away before the glory of Mozart, its most illustrious son. |
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A century before Mozart, the virtuoso violinist and composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was appointed to the music staff of the archiepiscopal court of Salzburg. |
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Ever graceful, serene and undemonstrative and always truthful to Mozart her deft passage work, sensitive phrasing and attention to detail showed her to be a true artist. |
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Over about 10 years, Mozart voraciously incorporated different styles and motifs and developed his own voice. |
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Sadie's other published works include studies of Handel and Mozart. |
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You Michael, have impersonated, or played may be a better word, Mozart, ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair, Caligula. |
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All he got was a Mozart opera where the singing was incandescent, the orchestra sparkled, and the brilliant production brought the Don to life in a modern setting. |
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According to the German musicologist Kai Koepp, the viola d' amore without sympathetic strings existed long before the generally known type described above by Mozart. |
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In Mozart and Salieri he wrote in a highly expressive declamatory idiom, while in Tsarskaya nevesta he used traditional forms and smooth melodies. |
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The Mozart industry has thrown down the glove, challenging musicians and listeners to search out every nook in which a Mozart note may have hidden. |
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Those Mozart parts are known as buffo roles, written for the semi-comic character singers of Mozart's companies, rather than noble, heroic leading men. |
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The Genius of Mozart is still in mourning and she weeps for the death of her pupil. |
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Then there are snippets of absorbing esoterica, such as the fact that Mozart wrote the tune to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, or that Vienna has its own Vegetable Orchestra. |
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Mozart might not have been the spendthrift hellion portrayed in the 1984 film Amadeus, but he could play the piano blindfolded, loved wooing women and wrote bawdy letters. |
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Leopold Mozart, when he wasn't raising his son Wolfgang Amadeus, wrote several concert works for unusual instruments, including the bagpipes and the hurdy-gurdy. |
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The style is a cross between Mozart and Mendelssohn with touches of Weber, and Cramer avoids empty passagework in favour of strong arguments built on memorable ideas. |
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Before Christmas the dulcet tones of Mozart, Handel and a host of other classical composers emanated from the statue of Brunel, in Haveock Square. |
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At least with Mozart there are a substantial number of works of unsurpassable genius rising from the routine mediocrity of about three quarters of his output. |
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Recent exposure to a Mozart string quartet arranged for four clarinets convinced me that Mozart knew what he was doing when he didn't score the original for four clarinets. |
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There's no rules, and Mozart was before the age of the metronome. |
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Hooligans are not reformed by Mozart, so much as driven away by a noise that is as alien and hostile to their world as whale song to a camel herd. |
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Newport has asperger's Syndrome and is best known for being the inspiration for the 2005 movie Mozart and the Whale. |
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If piano students are playing Mozart and Haydn sonatas, Chopin nocturnes and Debussy preludes, they certainly are capable of playing some chamber music repertoire. |
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Essentially a lyric soprano with coloratura capabilities, she was at home in both Mozart and Richard Strauss, as well as in bel canto and verismo. |
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You could strip away the bells and whistles and it would still be a perfectly excellent Mozart biography. |
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We have already had excellent accounts of Beethoven and Mozart symphonies and serenades and now it is the turn of some exquisite Haydn and Schubert symphonies. |
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It is not simply schoolchildren who benefit from a spot of Mozart. |
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Mozart and Weber quintets are two of her favourites, and it has been several years since these two masterworks have experienced such authorative performances. |
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Renowned for flexibility, performing familiar and less well-known chamber pieces, the ensemble pairs the supreme string quintets of Mozart and Mendelsshon. |
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By the same token, Rembrandt resembled Hawthorne, and the architect who had designed Melrose Abbey was a Mozart among architects. |
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In contrast, MacDonald's Gibbie is not only a moral prodigy, but also a Mozart of religious sensibility. |
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Li Po is the most musical, most versatile, and most engaging of Chinese poets, a Mozart of words. |
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Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Handel have all featured once most years, a different aspect of their work being chosen for study each time. |
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The Mozart Project is not quite the hybrid creature Twice Upon a Time is. |
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Mozart did write col legno parts in his Turkish concerto, and playing on the bridge isn't anything new. |
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What they got was an adaptation of an unfinished mass, the Davide Penitente, a solid work but lacking the usual Mozart wow factor. |
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We have now a nonette somewhat suggestive of Mozart, and the whole piece closes with this ensemble thoroughly well developed. |
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Joseph Haydn and W. A. Mozart figure prominently, as do their more Salzburgian counterparts Michael Haydn and Leopold Mozart. |
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Young observes was not adopted by Mozart and other later arrangers of the music. |
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This volume contains 14 complete two-and three-movement sonatinas by Beethoven, Clementi, Diabelli, Dussek and Mozart. |
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It's not like we'd blasted this stuff at Tracy's pregnant belly, the way some parents assault their unborns with Mozart. |
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Under Boult it recorded a wide range of music from Bach to Mozart and Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner and Elgar. |
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Tunes include the Skye Boat Song, Three Craws Sat Upon a Wa' and works by Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Debussy. |
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Villazon has sung in pro ductions of Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte so he knows what Mozart requires of a tenor. |
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Elgar arranged numerous pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, and others for the quintet, honing his arranging and compositional skills. |
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The programme consisted of the prelude to Die Meistersinger, music by Bach, Mozart, Elgar and Liszt, and finally Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. |
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Intrigued by an excerpt from a letter by Mozart included in the text? |
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Balthasar's appreciation was probably influenced by Adrienne von Speyr's more mystical apperception of the heart and soul of Mozart. |
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He is a Mozart in the insect world, sending out his strain upon the evening air. |
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His principal teacher there was John Goss, whose own teacher, Thomas Attwood, had been a pupil of Mozart. |
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Barbirolli's programmes included works by composers as diverse as Purcell, Delius, Mozart and Franck. |
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In 1912, Wittgenstein wrote to Russell saying that Mozart and Beethoven were the actual sons of God. |
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How he got from Bach and Mozart to the music of Jobim, bossa novas and sambas is a reflection of Ma's passion for learning. |
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But who needs one more perfectly excellent Mozart biography? |
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Its first Wagner production, Lohengrin, and its first Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro, were both performed in 1962, conducted by Charles Groves. |
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From 1998 to 1999, Sheen starred as Mozart in a successful revival of Amadeus. |
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There is a Mozart of competitive eating who is yet to reveal himself. |
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Juliette's recognised as one the country's most talented young flautists and is also s principal flute of the Northern Sinfonia and the London Mozart Players. |
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Neue Mozart Ausgabe Online, part of the Digitate Mozart Edition. |
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He's collaborated with Lionel Hampton and Madonna, covers Mozart and Black Sabbath on the same record, and is one of Les Paul's favorite guitarists. |
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For example, he advises pianists who play primarily Mozart and Beethoven to retune their instruments in a system that those composers might have used. |
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There is some confusion about this work since the original has disappeared, and scholars have assumed that what has come down to us is not by Mozart. |
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Till's sacralization of forgiveness at the end of Figaro similarly falls within an overall strategy of promoting Mozart as a religious thinker and artist. |
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In the early years of her career, she sang many of the leading Puccini and Mozart soprano roles, like Tosca and Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro. |
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The 1972 recording established Price as a Mozart specialist. |
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The music of Mozart is designed to appeal to all ages, but its complex layers of symbolism and numerology can equally be enjoyed by amateurs and connoisseurs. |
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He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Bach's Brandenburg concertos, Mozart symphonies, and song cycles by Schubert and Schumann. |
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The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts. |
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Williams enjoyed opera from an early age, particularly Mozart and Wagner. |
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Mozart himself was reportedly circumspect about his changes, insisting that any alterations to Handel's score should not be interpreted as an effort to improve the music. |
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Austria's current national anthem, attributed to Mozart, was chosen after World War II to replace the traditional Austrian anthem by Joseph Haydn. |
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The role of Carolina offers every possible pyrotechnical challenge in a score that hybridizes Mozart, who had just died, and Rossini, who had just been born. |
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The music of Haydn and Mozart, with their Viennese Classical styles, are usually regarded as being the most in line with the Enlightenment ideals. |
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