Mozart - Concerto for Flute & Harp in C Major - Mov. 1/3

[plaartla]

happy bday good buddy!

[tubermier]

must be a flute fanatic to note the octave is off when it's in a different tuning. Sometimes we ordinary folk can tell there is something a bit off when we hear it but not tothis level of audible discepancy. I guess if you hang out with orchestras you pick up on those nuances. I can't listen to too much classical music as it kind of grates on me after a while, like country. Enjoy folks. I'm off to here some dance club beat tunes.

[MsAlexy26]

geniale ed intenso

[hotwaiter]

this wasn't a stolen piece if I remember it correctly but Mozart was commissioned to write it for a Princess who was not a spectacular flute player so he dumbed it down a bit. I think that's the right story.

[ipykipyk]

@hotwaiter I've heard that story as well. Also her father or some other relative was the one who commissioned the piece - and he fancied himself as something of a harpist . . . hence the outrageous arpeggios for harp behind the relatively simple flute parts :-)

[aldudennie]

what kind of flute is he playing? is a traditional C flute?

[Oathkeeper1992]

I don't like this one....plus it's in the wrong key. Or at least, it sounds like it compared to the recording posted by recordholdings.

[HARMONICO101]

@Oathkeeper1992 it's on period instruments using a tuning used in Mozart's time, not the modern A=440 hz

[Oathkeeper1992]

@HARMONICO101 Oh right, ok. I always forget that Mozart wrote music for period instruments and that people still play Mozart's music on them. :p

[TzakiMan]

@Oathkeeper1992 It's in 415 HZ

[hacktik101]

is it true that he stole his work from exiled moorish litature.........only answer if u know about world history please

[HARMONICO101]

No.

[Benedam75]

as always, this is a matter of definition. where does inspiration end, where does the "stealing" begin. well, to be honest, i have sincere problems with the word "stealing". in art, is there such thing as "stealing"? in my opinion: NO! of course, mozart has many influences, as well as he influenced many other composers, from contemporaries to modern day heavy metal bands (e.g. metallica) or electronic musicians (e.g. vangelis). as the greek say: panta rhei - in art as well as in life itself!

[colourfulwithaU]

@Benedam75

Of course there is stealing in art. If I sit down and copy Bach's BWV1052 out by hand, and try to pass it off as my own work, that is theft.

[shymancat]

Utter nonsense.

[cinnamonkitties]

@hacktik101 Mozart was a genius, he didn't need to "steal" things from other people. If you're talking about this piece in particular, I highly doubt it. It sounds very Mozartean to me.

[1AdrianR]

@hacktik101 No.

[charlycrett]

¡¡GENIUS!!

[ShinAkiraX]

gosh, the harp was considered a plucked piano?!

[TheCrazyCello]

In the early 18th Century it was only ever used as a continuo instrument - sort of like a portable harpsichord without keys, it sort of continued that role into the classical era but declined in popularity really until Berlioz took some interest in it, but even then he needed two to get the effect he wanted.

[luminita51]

Thank you for the music you share with us and for the very documented (very useful for me) presentations you make to all the musicians.

Really and deeply grateful to you !

[barauoip]

Gracias por subirlo

Saludos desde México

Thank's for post it

Greetings from Mexico

[WolfgangSebastien]

underbare!!

( sechs sterne****** )

[Chlovak]

One of my all time favorite pieces by Mozart. Neither his heaviest nor most profound, but it really does sound like sunshine!

Thanks!!