"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, August 7, 2023
Classical corner
The first movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 25 in G Minor.
Few of Mozart's works are in minor keys. Of the Symphonies, this and no.40 only.
The reviewer at 'Classics Today' just made me think about that. He suggested that M didn't finish his commissioned Requiem because he did not like somber music and just got bored! The evidence is all the other masses which M DID complete, which are all very jolly, based on theatre music. I checked and he's right. He says Mozart loved theatre music and was bored by somber stuff like the Requiem, even when he was paid to write it.
Even this minor key piece is theatrical. It could fit in M's opera Don Giovanni, like the final scene where the Don is consumed by the fires of Hell! So much for the pretensions of 'serious music' and all the po-faced experts who ignore the macabre delight M took in writing stuff like Don G's 'catalogue' of conquests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue_aria
Few of Mozart's works are in minor keys. Of the Symphonies, this and no.40 only.
ReplyDeleteThe reviewer at 'Classics Today' just made me think about that. He suggested that M didn't finish his commissioned Requiem because he did not like somber music and just got bored! The evidence is all the other masses which M DID complete, which are all very jolly, based on theatre music. I checked and he's right. He says Mozart loved theatre music and was bored by somber stuff like the Requiem, even when he was paid to write it.
Even this minor key piece is theatrical. It could fit in M's opera Don Giovanni, like the final scene where the Don is consumed by the fires of Hell! So much for the pretensions of 'serious music' and all the po-faced experts who ignore the macabre delight M took in writing stuff like Don G's 'catalogue' of conquests:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue_aria