Abendempfindung an Laura, a song for castrato-soprano in F-major K. 523 was enter’d into M.’s Verzeichnuess Catalogue in Vienna on Sunday evening 24 June 1787 comprising 110 bars (alla breve) the longest Lied Mozart was to write - and foreshadows the song cycles of Franz Schubert in stile & modulation sequences - basically a life-review of a young lover brooding over the rejection by his beloved ‘Laura’ his ‘long lost love’ & the inevitability of death -this meloncholy poem (attr. to J. Heinrich Campe) may well link the same theme of abject melancholia he suffered following his father’s death on 24 May 1787- and the sentiments of the poem may well be a testament to his rejection in 1778 by Aloyisia Weber (his sister-in-law & ‘first love’) nearly 10 years before …the main sentiment being the acceptance of loss as part of the human condition …
Abendempfindung an Laura, a song for castrato-soprano in F-major K. 523 was enter’d into M.’s Verzeichnuess Catalogue in Vienna on Sunday evening 24 June 1787 comprising 110 bars (alla breve) the longest Lied Mozart was to write - and foreshadows the song cycles of Franz Schubert in stile & modulation sequences - basically a life-review of a young lover brooding over the rejection by his beloved ‘Laura’ his ‘long lost love’ & the inevitability of death -this meloncholy poem (attr. to J. Heinrich Campe) may well link the same theme of abject melancholia he suffered following his father’s death on 24 May 1787- and the sentiments of the poem may well be a testament to his rejection in 1778 by Aloyisia Weber (his sister-in-law & ‘first love’) nearly 10 years before …the main sentiment being the acceptance of loss as part of the human condition …