Mozart Andante KV 616 F-Major

Alexander Bildau
Live
Mozart (1756-1791)
Andante For A Little Mechanical Organ
Written 1791

"I hate that job and I can't finish it", he wrote to his wife. The Greatest Composer Of All Times, always short of money, sick from vanguard medical treatment (quicksilver was the drug of the day) and outlawed by the Austrian court ("only the best are worth to entertain our noble ears"), finally accepted the humiliating task and wrote background music, set for silly mechanical instruments. The Andante KV 616 is one of those works. Commissioned by the illustrious Count von Deym for his cabinet of wax sculptures in Vienna - kind of a predecessor of Madame Tussauds and famous for its attractive mix of erotic, morbid and heroic showcases - the music box was to be placed into a chamber displaying three sexy girls on a bed. Those waxen beauties were Mozart's most attentive listeners. (Comment by A. Bildau, added by KCB)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• MOZART
• ANDANTE
• KV
• 616
• BILDAU
• PIANO
• CLASSICAL
• MUSIC
• DEYM
• MADAME
• TUSSAUD
• MECHANICAL
• ORGAN
• MOZHATE
• YALISHANDA
• BILEDAO

[KarlAmade]

Do you know why he ended in the trash-hole?

<=(

It wasn't only Mozart that suffered from the last years of 1780 to early 1790s. You see it broke out war between Austria and the Ottoman Empire. The nobility didn't care for artists anylonger since their duty, under war, was to cast shit about their enemie and support the armie with money.

So mozart and many other artists that wasn't hired in a court suffered from the lack of patrons. =(

War has never been a good thing.

[beethomozart]

after reading about 20 biographies of johannes chrysostomus wolfangus theophilus "amadeus" and have heard almost all his 626 kochel during so many years I didn't know he was dead, but thanks anyway letting me know it

[awshucks]

First 6 is the first born body of man, in which the primary life sustainer is Heart.

Second 6 is intellect, the 'born again' which leads to Ability and seeking out Truth.

Third 6, which is Awareness, the thrice birth and acknowledgement of the interplay of Mystery and Intellect, which both sustains and recurses back into Heart.

And so it goes...and so it goes...and you're the only one who Knows. ;~)

[yenhoho]

Closest to Mozart's heart

[abbesieyes]

ama and deva are sanskrit.

amo and deus is latin.

Latin, the means by which base 'Word' has been twisted to keep man in a fallen state.

Rikku needs to question all she has come to know, from the first moment she could have known it.

[RikkuFukaimori]

@abbesieyes er,you have that wrong, Amadeus means the love of god. ama, or amo is love, and deus is god.

[abbesieyes]

Ama...incompletely digested. Deus...divinity.

Johannes reminding himself of his limitations.

[abbesieyes]

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

Consecrated to the valid Eastern Rite by name. Which is why he was not much loved by the Roman usurpers and its thugs merely called Nobility.

He understood 'scripture' better than any of them.

[mossfitz]

No-on doubted Mozart´s qualities during his lifetime. The reason he was always passed over for the secure positions he craved was that no-one could deal with having someone so obviously brilliant as an underling. - it would rather tend to show up those whose wealth was based on no other merit besides inheritance and by the 2nd half of the 18th century, the rich were becoming somewhat uncomfortable with their own position.

[orphan567]

@beethomozart Amadeus was his actual name.

[abbigailgeldart]

D Y,UK FU N QMOFPN IN QC

[chase123pie]

well mozart earned tons of money he was just prob one of the worst business men is history LOL but anyway like he went to buy something and a few houra later he died so he owed alot of money the family ran out of GOLD and couldnt bury him in a fancy place so scientists did reasearch lots mozart died AT 35! WAAAAA