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Friends, Family, and Students: Esteemed Chamber Works at Bard College Summer Music Festival (Annandale-on-Hudson) (Site)

Saturday August 15, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

$25
Friends, Family, and Students: Esteemed Chamber Works at Bard College Summer Music Festival (Annandale-on-Hudson)

Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos and his sophisticated “Linz” Symphony, composed in just four days, are two of the composer’s mature orchestral works. Program Nine, “Friends, Family, and Students,” presents them alongside examples by those within his inner circle: the Overture to Der Schulkandidat by his close friend Maria Theresia von Paradis, a musician who lost her sight at an early age; the festive Symphony in C by Marianna Martines, at whose musical soirées he was a frequent guest; the Overture in D by Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, his youngest child, born just four months before his death, who went on to study with Salieri and Hummel; and the “Turkish” Symphony by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, the friend, student, and assistant of Mozart’s, who is best-remembered for his posthumous completion of the latter’s Requiem.

PROGRAM

6 pm • Preconcert Talk
7 pm • Performance (plus livestream): Michael Stephen Brown and Orion Weiss, piano; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–91)
Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat, K365 (1779)
Symphony No. 36 in C, “Linz,” K425 (1783)

Marianna Martines (1744–1812)
Symphony in C (1770)

Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759–1824)
Overture to Der Schulkandidat (1792)

Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766–1803)
Sinfonia “Turchesca,” in C, SmWV.403 (ca. 1790)

Franz Xaver Mozart (1791–1844)
Overture in D (n.d.)

Artwork: Portrait of Marianna Martines by Anton von Maron (1773); Wikimedia Commons

Details

Date:
Saturday August 15
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost:
$25
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Website:
https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bmf26-p9/

Venue

Fisher Center
60 Manor Avenue
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 United States
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Website:
https://fishercenter.bard.edu/plan-your-visit/directions/