Antonio Salieri Overture to 'Les Horaces'

This is Salieri's second tragedie lyrique after 'Les Danaides'. It failed to match the first one's success but the overture at least is quite amazing. Pietro Spada conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Antonio
• Salieri
• les
• horaces
• Pietro
• Spada
• Philharmonia
• Orchestra

[MrUekou]

I can hearTromborns' sound!Did Salieri demand Tromborns?

[Astardis]

@MrUekou yes, they're common in opera orchestras throughout the classical period. Mozart hast them in his operas, too.

[haydnsalieri8]

Oh!!! FANTASTIC!!!! I love Salieri!!!! Thanks Astardis!!!!

[ivanhaydn]

its a wonderful overture, thank you astardis :)

[darkshadowvamp]

@veleglas - Rumor. Mozart was an alcoholic.

[darkshadowvamp]

@Zarathustra799 - This is a rumor and there is actually no factual basis to support it. Personally, I think Mozart was a chronic alcoholic and the 'murder' story was used just to cover up for it, so it wouldn't defame him.

[veleglas]

@Zarathustra799 Oh, yes. Mozart could write this only while he was sleeping. So what was the reason for Salieri to kill Mozart?

[Ebenrainwanderer]

The aim of this romantic drama was to denounce the mediocrity in all that forms and to exalt the ideal of the pure genious, even better when un or misunderstood genius. Probably wanting to find enough noble and attractive characters, Pouchkine pushed Salieri into the polemic again. A Salieri that could not defend hiself anymore if I may say so. We have to consider that brillant movie, those two brillant musicians, that wonderful dramawritter and all, to read more history books !!

[Ebenrainwanderer]

Hey everyone, dear people, whom speeches against Salieri I have heard in pretty every classical music chat, youtube channels and comments... You all, as humbly I permit myself to bring this matter to your enlighted knownledge, forget than the brilliant movie Amadeus never pretended to be even a fiction even based on real facts, it is just an adaptation, freely adapted from the musical drama Mozart and Salieri written near 1830 by Alexander Pouchkine.

[Zarathustra799]

Haha! What is this? Mozart could've composed this in his SLEEP. That's why Salieri killed him. He was JEALOUS

[Vanchy58]

Las oberturas de las operas de Salieri tienen siempre un aire muy pomposo y galante al mismo tiempo propio del estilo galante del clasicismo musical vienes. Hay aspectos en su composición que ya nos anuncian la nueva era del romanticismo que iniciaron Beethoven y Schubert alumnos de Salieri cuando estos maestros eran bien jovenes.

[MrUekou]

Tromborn's sound is powerful!Oboe's solo is also tuneful!

[MrUekou]

@Astardis thanks! I want to listen to this overture again!