Great Composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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If composers were emoji ... I think we know who he'd be. #JusticeForSalieri
This was requested by RU-vidrs Glen Sheppard, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Michael Wu, keon, Sean Ramsdell, and E B. See all requests at www.lentovivace....
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
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- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581, performed by Anthony McGill with A Far Cry and Musicians from Marlboro and available on IMSLP: tinyurl.com/yd...
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Unknown Artist: Mozart’s New Booty: [original upload: OMoyvHwPCrU]
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@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

Forgive me if I'm more odd in this episode than usual; it's just that time of the semester. #JusticeForSalieri

@LuisRivera-dg5bu 5 лет назад

Classical Nerd What are you studying and at what level (i.e. undergrad, master’s program etc.)?

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

I'm about to start the final semester of my undergraduate degree in composition, but I definitely have an eye towards master's programs that have a strong emphasis on musicology as well.

@Angel143-k4b 4 года назад

Classical Nerd just had to say I laughed hysterically at this one. Nothing to be ashamed of.

@ThePianoPod 2 года назад

Justice for Salieri!

@Richard.Atkinson 4 года назад

I couldn’t agree more with your discussion about child prodigies - they are incredibly common, whereas composers like Mozart are not.

@swymaj02 Год назад

Leopold was a somewhat well-known composer and music teacher in his own right.

@ericrakestraw664 5 лет назад

Great video on the life of Mozart. I hope that you'll eventually make longer videos on Bach and Beethoven (at least 30 min.) because these masters deserve more than just three minutes and eight minutes, respectively.

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

I plan to, but the longer videos take more time to put together and I want to make sure the remakes do the figures justice. (Not to mention the several hundred outstanding requests ...)

@Richard.Atkinson 4 года назад

Haydn’s 46th Symphony reprises the minuet in its finale - more “cyclical” than anything in the Jupiter Symphony, and composed before it. It may have been Beethoven’s inspiration for doing the same thing in his 5th Symphony.

@detectivehome3318 3 года назад

Wow! @Richard Atkinson !! Great to see you here!

@johannagarzon9313 5 лет назад

It's so difficult to make a good and fair video about "His Majesty Mozart", and you did a brilliant work. A prodigy is different from a genius just because hit it first is not the same as hit it better. Kudos. #JusticeForSalieri

@KenL414 2 года назад

You can certainly argue composer vs. composer on technical merits, accomplishments, etc., but I'll say one thing - if I ever find myself whistling or humming a melody without even realizing it, more often than not, it's Mozart. The man had a gift for melody that, to me, went far beyond anyone else.

@popolala2160 5 лет назад

Thanks for making another great video essay!

@Sander1945 5 лет назад

This is all fascinating. Good job!

@bradfordt1 3 года назад

Well done. Thank you.

@SunriseFireberry 5 лет назад

#JusticeForSalieri

@emilynightingale7758 5 лет назад

Perfect timing with this video, we're studying Mozart in music right now (the magic flute). Could you please do a video on Borodin or Vaughan Williams. (absolutely love your videos by the way (very informative))

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

Borodin and Vaughan Williams have moved up in the request pool!

@jackjack3320 4 года назад

His early works (ones written at age 17~23) are not just juvenila. Mozart Masses, Litanies, Vespers | Selection of Best Moments: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GJ9k5ynt6pI.html

@rexdxiv 5 лет назад

You are the best!

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

I try!

@sergeiorlov5096 3 года назад

A true firestarter, twisted firestarter.

@CommentaryCentral 3 года назад

Great video, thank you!

@profnagarajan 4 месяца назад

There is genius composer by name 'Ilaiyarajah' in our Tamil Nadu, India. Your series on 'great composers' would remain incomplete without a mention of his story. Hence, try to complete it, If you can. You will surely be astonished to learn about his musical prowess and his story. Wish you the best of luck.

@smileysmile11 5 лет назад

Great program! Fresh perspective on Mozart's life and art. What's the rare keyboard piece you mention after the "Dissonance" Quartet? Been trying to search for it phonetically, but not having any luck. Eine Kleine Geeg (sp?). I wanna hear it!

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

I've always heard it referred to as Eine Kleine Gigue, but more technically it's the Gigue in G major, KV 574.

@ignacioclerici5341 3 года назад

@@ClassicalNerd what are your favorite composers?

@ignacioclerici5341 3 года назад

@@ClassicalNerd what do you think of Alma Deutscher's music?

@zacharydetrick7428 5 лет назад

dat blur 11:21

@firepyro66 3 года назад

id definitely say that bachs second french suite, and much of his work, does share motives between the movements

@Flux799 5 лет назад

I named my goldfish Mozart.

@definitely_not_sibelius2516 3 года назад

I named mine Debussy...

@colly7963 3 года назад

I named my budgie Buster Amadeus Mozart because he used to sing so beautifully every time I played piano.

@hillerychan9483 3 года назад

@@definitely_not_sibelius2516 I named my cat Depussy

@michaelwu7678 5 лет назад

Mozart’s music is the most emotionally nuanced and complex. Fight me.

@seanramsdell4172 5 лет назад

0:14 :)

@michaelwu7678 5 лет назад

Mozart’s music is so nobly sad

@seanramsdell4172 5 лет назад

When specifically do you want me to request one composer/piece/movement or vote on one on the queue again?

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

My policy is to try to keep the queue as manageable as possible. Under the current system, 136 of your current 137 requests will have to be fulfilled before another could be added. However, I may revise this if the queue begins to shrink faster than it expands (which hasn't ever happened in the history of the channel). Basically, by limiting incoming requests to a maximum of two, I'm trying to make sure everyone has a fair shot to request the composers they _most_ want to see versus the stuff that they _eventually_ want to see. I don't plan on stopping until I've run out of subjects to discuss, and music is so vast that I doubt that'll ever happen.

@seanramsdell4172 5 лет назад

138, but thanks for the feedback.

@coreylapinas1000 Год назад

I always wondered if the opening of the Dissonance Quartet was a prank of sorts. Don't get me wrong, I love it but it doesn't seem to go anywhere and the music to follow doesn't even remotely match the tone the first bars set up.

@therandomvideocreator2928 2 года назад

can you please do one about Manuel the falla? I'm playing one of his songs and would love to know more about him

@ClassicalNerd 2 года назад

I mean, yeah, sure, but probably not for a _long_ while: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

@jackwilmoresongs 5 лет назад

That picture of Mozart is some artist's imagination. Other than a statue of a little boy with a violin, I don't think we have any idea what Mozart looked like. A great composer. Why he gets SO MUCH press around my area on radio, I don't know. I guess he's a top marketing cash cow.

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

I could have used a more historically accurate depiction of Mozart for the video, but unfortunately I am limited to pictures with a high enough resolution. (And regardless, this picture is what pops in peoples' heads when they think "Mozart.")

@FrostDirt 2 года назад

Mozart was probably famous to be a (at least) good composers in every genre at the time.

@VWYL900802 Год назад

Mozart was like the OG pop star whereas Beethoven was like the OG rock star.

@quinnsine1650 Год назад

I’m sure I could beat Mozart in a fist fight, though he is a very good composer, so I wouldn’t want to do so.

@ramprasada7451 3 года назад

Imagine a 5 year old kid listening to Don Giovanni overture or The D minor Requiem and like "Hmm yeah i'm getting Intelligent." Stonks

@ClassicalNerd 3 года назад

stonks 📈

@ramprasada7451 3 года назад

@@ClassicalNerd #justiceforsalieri a good composer

@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow 5 лет назад

Technically Mozart was not born in Austria. He was born in the Holy Roman Empire.

@Bipedlocomotion 5 лет назад

Do Gerrrsshwin

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

@smashissocool65 Год назад

I think Salieri is very underrated

@JustMiluna 5 лет назад

12:23 I laughed very hard 🤣

@Chiko-sc1gz 3 года назад

6:50 lmao

@junomoon6337 2 года назад

I'm a liebhaber lol

@TerryUniGeezerPeterson 5 лет назад

Do you really have to pronounce his first name as volfgang? A bit on the pretentious side.

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

I mean ... that _is_ how it's pronounced. Besides, if I _didn't,_ I'd have plenty of comments critiquing my mispronunciation.

@evanwise7131 3 года назад

@@ClassicalNerd pretentiousness by definition is the action or air of pretending one knows about a topic which one does not. Therefore, It’s not pretentious if you know what you are talking about! 🤛🏻🎤

@swymaj02 Год назад

Kids actually sing Lick My Own Arse sometimes. That actually happened.

@fe12rrps 5 лет назад

There’s always a plane in the background with Schoenberg.

@michaelwu7678 5 лет назад

By God you finally did it

@bruceweaver1518 5 месяцев назад

Would like to see you do a presentation on the following: Arthur S. Sullivan. (1847-1900). The Gilbert & Sullivan operas have lasted through several decades. His Tempest music and Symphony in C have become victims of a curious law: They were vitally important in the Victorian Era, and lost their popularity when the Era was complete. Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975). I always thought this composer’s work was the successor to Charles Ives. His score for Hitchcock’s “Psycho” is a classic, yet his film score for “Devil and Daniel Webster” is a masterpiece of recycling American Folk Tunes into a unique composition. His Symphony of 1941 is equally a masterpiece because the dark dissonances of the work are transformed into a roar of major keys in constant revelry-especially E-flat major.

@anncutler4571 5 лет назад

Do you have a favorite Mozart biography?

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

Not particularly; for the biggest names in music history, I've often found that getting as many different perspectives as you can is the most valuable thing.

@suzyserling277 3 года назад

Excellent presentation!!,…..well, I gave Thomas Hill this opinion many other times!….a prehistoric person like me who only had books, records and cassettes for many years appreciates someone who can offer descriptions that have common sense and facts about the times in which Mozart lived!!. Thomas, your explanation regarding Salieri, the “Mozart Effect”, social environment of Mozart’times are extremely valuable. Thank you in the name of music lovers, music therapists, etc., etc….and thanks to You Tube!

@tolower486 5 лет назад

Can you do Salieri actually? #JusticeForSalieri

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

Salieri has been given a bump in the request pool. #JusticeForSalieri

@GenoKids 3 года назад

Check out our new cartoon about Mozart and his life: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ITgewXQx8S0.html

@classicalmusic3334 5 лет назад

Great video! I believe the guy on the picture you used for Süssmayr is actually Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, another composer from that era.

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

It's hard to find pictures of Süssmayr that are high-enough resolution to utilize. I'll be sure to cross-reference images going forward!

@lunchbox7440 3 года назад

enjoyed watching your vid , solemn vespers alone is outstanding imo

@benmaloney5434 4 года назад

I think maybe the assertion of Haydn being "the grand old style" and Mozart being "the new kid on the block" is maybe not as true as it first seems. They were both working alongside each other as friends and colleagues, innovating enormously in their own way. For example the single largest and greatest proto-romantic work of the period is undoubtedly Haydn's 'The Seasons', and that was to have a MUCH bigger influence on the music of the century to come than most of Mozart's work did, especially because of Beethoven being Haydn's pupil. If anything, I'd say they independently created two schools of romanticism - the dramatic topical one fathered by Haydn (in which Beethoven, Weber, Schumann etc. later partook), and Mozart's more subtle, elegant and precocious style (with Hummel, Süssmayr, Schubert Mendelssohn etc. following in the footsteps). It's essentially more to do with who taught who - although I should highlight that Süssmayr was never really Mozart's student, and was evidently probably not the right man for the job when completing some of the unfinished manuscripts (considering the countless schoolboy errors).

@benmaloney5434 4 года назад

Also ... the 'dissonance' quartet (which of course, he never intended for it to be called) is really just the tip of an enormous iceberg when it comes to Mozart's unique and creative use of harmony. Check out some of the early operas, also 'Idomeneo', 'Zaide', 'Die Schuldigkeit', 'Thamos', the C Minor mass (I could go on) and your minds will be blown! His best work is the stuff that no one ever talks about (typical) :-)

@benmaloney5434 4 года назад

And also, K622 is for basset-clarinet, not Bb-clarinet! And he used trombones in Idomeneo, before Don Giovanni was written. There's actually a tenor trombone solo in the very first dramatic work that he wrote. And I'm afraid the story about Allegri's Miserere is VERY unlikely to be true - there's little evidence that it happened.

@krismariasy9728 5 лет назад

Do Henryk Gorecki or Sir John Tavener!

@krismariasy9728 5 лет назад

Or both ;)

@ClassicalNerd 5 лет назад

You're the fourth to request Górecki and the third to request Tavener, which has bumped them both in the request pool: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

@culturalconfederacy782 3 года назад

Much of Mozart's life is embellished. And the truth is he was not known outside of the aristocracy until after his death. Leopold was a self promoter, propping up Wolfgang by touring. As mentioned in the video, people were doubtful in Vienna and London that Mozart was a child prodigy. Despite his output, much of the music of Mozart may not really be by Mozart. This is why so many corrections or re-numberings in the Kochel Catalogue have been made. It's also believed that Mozart had other composers working with him on operas such as The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute. Not saying Mozart wasn't talented, but the folklore that surrounds his biography has evolved via rumor and the desire to create an iconic image of the W.A.M. man.