Adagio and Fugue for strings in C minor - W A Mozart

[gr4l9um20b7o]

What number is this work?

[KSava]

@gr4l9um20b7o K.546

Anyone know which album this recording can be found on?

[HarveyEspatchelowe]

Intense! (I'm not educated in music criticism...lol)

[surfsup004]

@HarveyEspatchelowe Trust me, 'intense' is about all you need to say about this piece.

[sunburststratocaster]

I wish Mozart wrote more dark music like this.

[JairCrawford]

@sunburststratocaster Agreed 100%. I LOVE his music like this much more than his lighter sounding works. But alas, the people of his time wanted to hear the lighter works, and he needed to make a living. lol

[Danielespa70]

Una mezcla de intriga, rabia , relax , Y FUERZA -(en la segunda parte de la -canción-) de esta MARAVILLA de WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

[devilxhlywood]

there are some pieces where karajans constant adagio style really shines, in adagios! this rendition moves mountains.

[kathysawrey1]

one srry

[kathysawrey1]

Was this the son he was working on with Sarieli when he died in the movie????

[lenakog1]

@kathysawrey1 No. In the movie he was giving orders to Salieri for the "Confutatis" of the "Requiem Mass".

[cantab345]

...worlds in such little space.

[cantab345]

One of the great fugues. Supposedly Beethoven admired it so much that he made a copy of it. Perhaps it was the trills in this countersubject inspired the terrifyingly incessant trills in the epic fugue at the end of the Hammerklavier sonata. Not only does this fugue sound magnificent, but it incorporates effortlessly masterful examples or so many difficult fugal techniques: stretto, inversion and chromaticism. There are few works of art that have created so dark and beautiful and perfect...

[Blackgeoff3]

@cantab345 Legend has it that Mozart was inspired by Bach's Art of the Fugue

[TheSunmanho]

@Blackgeoff3

that is no legend, every school-kid knows that.

[Leitilumo]

Bach and Beethoven have many dark moments.

[Mr1995Piggy]

i dont know how long it will take for someone to get back to me on this, buuuuut, im really into the darker side of classical music, it facsinating and intriging to me, so can someone give me a list of dark classical compositions or composers, i would love to widen my spectrum on this type of music cuz i love it, Please Help Me Out People, thanks

[devilxhlywood]

@Mr1995Piggy

you'd probably enjoy beethoven's moonlight sonata, movements 1 & 3

[linceed87]

@Mr1995Piggy

hi

you may try

mozart piano concerto 20 and 24, symphony 25, his c minor mass jupiter symphony 4th movement (its not dark but very powerfull)

some of bach

beethoven 4th piano concerto also piano sonata 14 the first movement as well as the second

schubert death and the maiden

have fun

and dont kill yourself :D

[WBmusicify]

@linceed87 i find it horrifyingly creepy and dramatically disturbing that you put the smiley after stating firmly "and don't kill yourself". hahaha u r a grade A creeper.

[Maazel456]

@Mr1995Piggy Listen to the Stokowski arrangement of Bach's Chaconne for solo violin in D minor, along with the famous, minor Beethoven piano sonatas. I would also recommend Beethoven's symphony 5, first movement, Beethoven's 7th, second movement, and also Symphonic Metamorphosis on a Theme by Carl Maria von Weber, by Hindemith.

[Leitilumo]

4:17... Mind Blown

[vachxx]

Dieses Meisterstück hat die majestätische Anmutung einer Kathedrale ...

[edisacuntface]

hes such a fucking nob

[nuclearcollision]

This is great, but the original piece of the Fugue is even better. Fugue in C minor for two pianos K. 426.

[deserticus18]

i always liked Mozart music, but in the summer of 1985 heard for first time this piece and then i got it. i understood why Mozart is a genius.

[PeterMarekPhoto]

Great!

[SymphonyOfTheGods]

Mozart's dark side

[robertgift]

Howonderful!

I have the organ transcription by E. Power Biggs. (I think it is by Biggs.)

So difficult.

Can anyone post Biggs' performance of this on organ?

Thank you.

[RICPOIRIER1]

Il y a longtemps que j'avais entendu cette interprétation! C'est une agréable surprise! Cet orchestre à cordes relève certainement tout le ton et la gravité de cette oeuvre profonde de Mozart. Merci!

[TheJamesalden]

It would seem, in a way, that more of this kind of music didn't come from Mozart, much like that all-too, yet seemingly brief 'Ave Verum Corpus. But then, at least we can be grateful that he did produce such a profoundly beautiful work..

[metallicragex]

I'd say the more and more you dig into Mozart, the more and more these type of songs pop up. The first movement of Piano Concerto 20 is just as haunting as this. Add his String Quartets and Violin Sonatas (especially KV304) and you have a much better idea of the depth and profundity of his work. Critics who say his work is "shallow" really, in my opinion, have no footing to stand upon.

[chopinandliszt]

@metallicragex "I've always counted myself amongst the greatest admirers of Mozart and shall remain so until my last breath" -L.V.Beethoven

[2009xellos]

@metallicragex I know, critics who say so much nonsensical shit about Mozart include Norman Lebrecht - his essay on Mozart is horrendous, superficial, amateur. Look it up on google. FUCK Lebrecht. Mozart's admirers include BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN, RAVEL, TCHAIKOVSKY, GRIEG

[eddiemperor]

@2009xellos Yes Indeed i think Beethoven himself said that Mozart was the Greatest Musician that ever lived. his Music has the Power to Make you Smile, Cry, and feel Joy, but when he's Serious all you can do is Listen and with Humility hear the Fury of God. ther's No Doubt in this WORLD!!!! That Mozart was possesed and Used by God to let us Humans Hear his voice, From a Small child till his death.....I'm sorry I cannot Explain it in words literally. This man was not a Human.

[giorgiotono]

Una delle composizioni più tragiche di W.A.MOZART : NATURALMENTE KARAJAN N. 1

[ihamoitc2005]

Karajan's like a benevolent dictatator. If you follow Karajan's lead instead of fighting him you'll enjoy it.

If, on the other hand, you;d rather enjoy listening to music on your own terms and don't want to give up control then Karajan is not for you.

For some, the preference is entirely dependent on mood.

[MaestroTJS]

I consider this to easily be one of Mozart's greatest works. The intensity and darkness are only equaled by the Dies Irae in the Requiem (and possibly the Kyrie). But even there, it isn't quite as suffocating as it is here (in a good way). The chromaticism in this is so far ahead of its time, parts of it sound like they could have been written by Tchaikovsky (if he had had more technical discipline).

Play this the next time someone tells you Mozart only wrote simple, pretty music.

[ttwiligh7]

@MaestroTJS I'm biased by the thought that Bach was way too advanced in this field, and coudln't enjoy the fugue.

I realized that how harmonious Bach's fugues were, even though his style was far more aggressive and often modern than Mozart's. Mozart's fugues are somewhat destructive. He was not quite getting it, was he?

I'm not saying this isn't good just because I don't understand the second half, but it is much easier for me to feel something divine in simple, pretty music he wrote.

[whneo97]

@MaestroTJS Exactly! That's what some of my friends say... :(

[silkcult]

A wonderful piece of a brilliant teacher

5*****

[raulishoogallagher]

hhaha mozart the eternal crazy man

[gerrus89]

Anybody has this with Fritz Busch?

[Pedroclasic]

Fabuloso, simplemente hermoso, esta música me produce una sensación de serenidad, despertando en mí una especie de asombro y temor. Este lado de un Mozart serio y con cierto dramatismo es fantástico. Mozart, el mas grande de todos los CLASICOS!!!!

[veliko1970]

fantastic!