Your Favorite Mozart Piece

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 10:40am

In celebration of Wolfie's birthday. Tell....
I love the Queen Of The Night aria from THE MAGIC FLUTE

[Plum]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 10:43am

Ah, I love The Magic Flute from beginning to end. I was probably the world's only 4-year-old who tried singing along to that aria.

[GClef2]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 10:48am

Se Vuol Balare from the Marriage of Figaro...absolutely gorgeous. It is so witty and fun and I LOVE singing it. I also love Non pui Andrai from that opera as well...

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 10:48am

The overture to the Marriage of Figaro

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 10:49am

God, where to start?

-"Der Holle Racht" from "The Magic Flute", of course
-"Popoli di Tessaglia", which for those of you who aren't opera freaks, contains THE highest note ever actually *written* in an operatic aria (the double "G", or G above high C)
-The Clarinet Concerto in A
-Flute Concertos in D & G
-Symphony #40 in g minor
-the Requiem, OF COURSE
-the "Elvira Madigan" piano concerto
-the Great Mass in c minor
-the Clarinet Quintet
-the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola in Eb major
-the Gran Partitta

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 10:51am

I love Mozart. Giunse Alfin Il Momento from Le Nozze di Figaro is one of my favorites.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 10:52am

Impossible to answer...

They are all brilliant.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 10:55am

eh, I don't know if *all* of it is...some of it is downright boring and repetitive (then again, when you consider he wrote some of it at like, SIX YEARS OLD, it's still impressive).

I'm actually not a huge Mozart fan (which, as you can imagine, caused me great amounts of grief in school...it's practically sacrilege to say that out loud in that particular building), but the pieces that I've mentioned above, for me at least, all hold some special spark, whether it's musical, or a memory attached to a particularly great performance. (And in the case of the clarinet concerto, rote memorization and years of having it stuffed down my throat as a clarinet major...it's almost Stockholm Syndrome-esque. I had no choice to but love it...)

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[colleen_lee]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 11:56am

Jaily stole some of mine, damn bastard.

Requiem (duh!)
Great Mass in C
Clarinet Quintet
His later symphonies: #31, #39, #40 (second version w/ the clarinets), #41
Fantasy #3

I am not even going to list opera excerpts because that would go on for ages.

I also am not a huge Mozart fan, I find a lot of his work to be a bit tedious. Granted, I never stated this opinion in college because as a music major I risked bodily harm. I do acknowledge the foundation that Mozart laid, however, he definitely was very influential in the creation of many conventions of modern music.

[DG]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:01pm

I can't even comment on not being a fan, but I applaud your brave admission

There is absolutely no way I could narrow it down, but if someone actually had a gun to my head, I guess I'd say the Requiem.

[mominator]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:08pm

Too, too many, but I do love the Requiem.

But Bach is my fav!!

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[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:10pm

Colleen, I'm SO glad you mentioned the clarinet issue! What I am MOST grateful to Mozart for is singlehandedly (basically) making the clarinet an established part of the symphony orchestra. He had heard some clarinetists in Mannheim in 1778, and immediately wrote a letter to his father saying "Ah, if only we too had clari­nets! You cannot imagine the glorious effect of a symphony with flutes, oboes, and clarinets." He then befriended a man named Anton Stadler, who was somewhat of a freak of nature, being, really, the world's only virtuoso clarinetist (the clarinet was a VERY new instrument then), and he wrote the Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet specifically for him. (And his very special instrument, the basset clarinet)

Yay, Wolfie! Boy had some VISION, honey.

[singingwendy]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:10pm

"Exultate Jubilate" for soprano. It's on my list of "songs I want to perform one day"..if only it didn't have so many damn melismas!

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:14pm

There are too many to mention but I'll just have to go with

Requiem because it is such a beautiful piece.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:17pm

That is one reason Mozart holds a special place in my heart, I was a clarinetist also (though it wasn't the instrument I majored in).

[grizzabella]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:51pm

I love The Requiem (having sung in performances of it half a dozen times) and the opera "The Escape from the Seraglio" which is adorable (with a brilliantly silly plot) from start to finish.

[Jilani]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:59pm

Another vote for the Requiem - but specifically, the completion by Robert Levin, which improves in many ways on the Süssmayr version, and includes a very cool Amen fugue at the end of the Lacrimosa based on a sketch for one by Mozart that was discovered in the 1960s.

[Calvin]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 1:01pm

The first Mozart piece I ever learned to play on the piano (like most people, probably) was Rondo alla Turca. To this day, it remains to me the musical equivalent of comfort food. It might be a basic ditty musically compared to other stuff out there, but it still feels good to sit down and pound it out every once in a while when you're feeling low.

[Color and Light]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 1:33pm

I love the Lacrimosa from the Requiem. Just manages to send shivers up my spine every time I hear it.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 8:03pm

I'd have to say THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO--from the first notes of the overture to the grand finale. What a funny, human and melodious work it is!

(Happy Birthdy Wolferel!)

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 8:53pm

Haha... this is weird because I have a Mozart piece we are singing in my Chamber Choir stuck in my head "Ecco quel fiero istante" It's really beautiful and fun to sing. We are also singing "Se lonton, ben mio, tu sei" and "Luci care, luci belle" They're all good.

[kate2]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 8:56pm

Some kid in my bio class had a Mozart cd today so my teacher put it on... about ten minutes later i screamed out "TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR" did he really write it?! i had no idea.

[Burlesquebabe]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 9:09pm

Mine, too The Queen of the Night Aria is so beautiful and sublime. *Give me a moment*

[hypertruffle]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 9:14pm

Ah! I'm going to a Mozart festival at the NJPAC tomorrow! W00T! I'll be participating in the interplay thing where I get to play some Mozart pieces outside the stage. I love 'Fin Ch'han Dal Vino' (Don Giovanni) and the overture of The Magic Flute.

[Color and Light]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 9:17pm

So did anyone else watch Amadeus today?