It never ceases to impress me how elegant Mozart's writing is. You'd never guess how complex this stuff is from just listening. Great video as always Richard. Amazing choice of piece too, that trio lives rent free in my head.
The three great Wind Serenades (the "Grand Partita", this one in C minor and the one in E-flat major) are absolute masterpieces, Mozart elevated the "Harmonie-Musik" to peaks comparable to those reserved to fully-blown orchestras.
@Raffael-Tausend I don't know if it is a reference but for me it is a way to show excitement. Like you wake up your partner just to watch the video together or something. I'm autistic idk
I like the fact that the canon in the minuet section is orchestrated. It's an interesting exercise to add harmonies to principal polyphonic voices. You don't want to blurr the main voices and you probably want some slower note values for stability. On the other hand you might want greater variety than here and let instruments jump between different tasks in a larger orchestral context here.
It’s indeed so easy to underestimate Mozart due to singing and melodic nature of his music! You never make such mistake with Bach whose music is a deep well at the very first glance whereas Mozart’s pieces seem to be sparkling summer drinks in a thin translucent glasses. Yet the well is exactly of the same depth. The minor section reminds me somehow of Dvorak. In my opinion, those two have one thing in common: thanks to their immense and impeccable melodic talent their music amazes with apparent simplicity and natural flow while it’s complex and tricky in fact.
@ not really , I didn’t mean any specific piece by Dvorak, but more the overall impression that the minor section gave me. The melody possesses such rhythmic quality and such dance-like straightforwardness that reminded me of Dvorak.
This serenade (and the corresponding quintet transcription) is perhaps among my favourite compositions by Mozart. All the movements show an equal amount of craftsmanship, even though declined in different ways. I especially love the recapitulation section of the first movement, where the once sweet second theme returns in gloomy C minor, besides this movement and the equally great finale, from which I think Beethoven took some inspiration.
It's great to see the canonic Adagio getting some love; I was beginning to think I was the only person aware of its existence. Mozart is known almost exclusively for large, multi-movement works (or selections from them) but many of his miniatures are fantastic. Some of the lieder, some of the canons, the six notturni, K. 355, K 574, K. 411....
Has there ever existed a greater composer for winds than Mighty Mo? I love the original Serenade's piquant, almost strident sound over the Quintet's smoothness. Hausmusik indeed! Another favorite c-minor masterpiece is the Masonic Funeral Music K 477. What a small gem!
Love seeing a notification for a new video of yours, especially when it's on one of my favorite pieces. Also, thank you for introducing me to that adagio for basset horns. It's excellent! I'm still holding out hope that you'll get around to finishing that video on the c-minor fugue k.426/546(perhaps included in a larger video on Mozart's fugues in general?) but I'm probably just being greedy at this point.
@@Richard.Atkinsonand also remember the full, completely in-detail deep dive of: 1) Strauss's Don Quixote 2) Stravinsky's Rite of Spring 3) any Wagner opera / the Bach Matthaeuspassion
The statistical probability that this video that I am only just starting to watch is going to be an awesome video that I am going to enjoy immensely is roughly 100%.
Thank you Richard Atkinson for your musical education. I love Mozart, but I am not educated in music, a bit self educated in the history of music. I listen, go to concerts and buy music. Greetings from Iceland. Einar Kr.
A nice touch is that the second section begins like a "Monte Romanesca", in a brief nod to music of an earlier period (such as Corelli's trio sonatas).
2:00 It's funny that you mention that the second section of a minuet is like a mini-developement section from a sonata movement, because that's probably how Mozart thought about sonata form to begin with, like a blown-up and over-dimensional minuet. He learned composition with the helps of the famous Riepel treatise on melody and the minuet is literally Riepel's primary pedagogical tool for teaching the compositional craft. No coincidence that Mozart's first compositions as a child are minuets, too.
Awesome as usual, your analysis is perfect! Notice the second part of Minuetto shares the same harmonic structure with 'Eure Tukke' (Osmin) in the Einfuhrung aus dem Serail.
Ahhhhh yes! Missed you dude! Also what timing, as a fellow counterpoint enthusiast i yesterday started composing my own canons at each interval, inspired (of course) by Bach and by you! (Though starting diatonically as in the Goldberg variations, but for two unaccompanied voices)
Charming, enlightening, mentally stimulating and emotionally satisfying. I look forward to your well thought out essays. Kudos. (Is there no end to how much Mozart impresses us with his genius?)
... Also, note that the motives in bar 12 and 13 has just been used... - three notes upwards and the three notes in the second basson are the same as when it entered.
Such a cyte video compared to the one passacaglia to rule them all! I would love to see some more bruckner analyses, though I know how endless the amount of effort required is.
3:40 I really dislike when this happens. Usually it happens to, what many perceive as, minor parts of a work such as ornaments but it can make a huge difference in the character of themes inside a piece.
Okay, admit it! This channel's just a front to get impressionable kids hooked on Haydn, isn't it? You lure them in with catchy titles about Mozart or big ol' Bruckner symphonies, but it ALLLLLL leads back to Haydn in the end doesn't it, Haydn pusher! You think you're so slick, but I'm onto you!
Oh,yes, what a masterwork!! But as Mozart arranged it for string quintet he should have arranged it also for orchestra what I tried here : th-cam.com/video/JF9KqHkL88I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=D7RUVbyv6iFszzu2
Dear Richard, you have done a great job presenting Mozart's superb skills at counterpoint in instrumental works. Even though you have cracked down several choral masterpieces by Bach, I have not seen any videos of yours doing that with Mozart's amazing choral counterpoint. How about Misericordias Domini KV 222 to start with? A great admirer of yours. th-cam.com/video/u5dGgwydwG4/w-d-xo.html
It never ceases to impress me how elegant Mozart's writing is. You'd never guess how complex this stuff is from just listening. Great video as always Richard. Amazing choice of piece too, that trio lives rent free in my head.
Enjoy it also for orchestra as a symphony: th-cam.com/video/JF9KqHkL88I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=D7RUVbyv6iFszzu2
The three great Wind Serenades (the "Grand Partita", this one in C minor and the one in E-flat major) are absolute masterpieces, Mozart elevated the "Harmonie-Musik" to peaks comparable to those reserved to fully-blown orchestras.
when you're so good at melodies that people forget you were a master of counterpoint (and harmony) as well
also pls do more bach, love your vids
How much people who only know Eine Kleine Nachtmusik must be missing out!
Wake up babe, new Atkinson video!
Why does this "joke" appear in every comment section of a good TH-camr? Is this referencing some insider joke?
@Raffael-Tausend I don't know if it is a reference but for me it is a way to show excitement. Like you wake up your partner just to watch the video together or something. I'm autistic idk
@@Raffael-Tausend At least one person usually posts it on all my videos 😂
@@Ivan_1791fair enough:-) I was just wondering
@@Richard.Atkinson we're just excited and wish to share with all our friends
I like the fact that the canon in the minuet section is orchestrated. It's an interesting exercise to add harmonies to principal polyphonic voices. You don't want to blurr the main voices and you probably want some slower note values for stability. On the other hand you might want greater variety than here and let instruments jump between different tasks in a larger orchestral context here.
Never clicked so fast on a new video, thanks!
This makes me happy. I’ve played this many many times and always marvelled at this movement and the mirrored cannon
Your name is especially appropriate for this video 😂
@ 💯😅
Thanks a lot for uploading of the video ! It teaches us the Genius Music of Mozart whose ideas are still not fully explored today.
It’s indeed so easy to underestimate Mozart due to singing and melodic nature of his music! You never make such mistake with Bach whose music is a deep well at the very first glance whereas Mozart’s pieces seem to be sparkling summer drinks in a thin translucent glasses. Yet the well is exactly of the same depth. The minor section reminds me somehow of Dvorak. In my opinion, those two have one thing in common: thanks to their immense and impeccable melodic talent their music amazes with apparent simplicity and natural flow while it’s complex and tricky in fact.
I wonder if you associate this with Dvorak because of Dvorak’s D minor wind serenade, that sometimes sounds like this Mozart serenade?
@ not really , I didn’t mean any specific piece by Dvorak, but more the overall impression that the minor section gave me. The melody possesses such rhythmic quality and such dance-like straightforwardness that reminded me of Dvorak.
I know I'm going to show off my ignorance of music, but I've never heard this serenade. Thanks for making me aware of the existence of such a marvel!
This serenade (and the corresponding quintet transcription) is perhaps among my favourite compositions by Mozart. All the movements show an equal amount of craftsmanship, even though declined in different ways. I especially love the recapitulation section of the first movement, where the once sweet second theme returns in gloomy C minor, besides this movement and the equally great finale, from which I think Beethoven took some inspiration.
Very true. I also love the slow movement - especially when the horns play the theme.
Dude, I love your videos so much! Please never ever stop! Have a great day!
Großartig!!!
Danke so much!
It's great to see the canonic Adagio getting some love; I was beginning to think I was the only person aware of its existence. Mozart is known almost exclusively for large, multi-movement works (or selections from them) but many of his miniatures are fantastic. Some of the lieder, some of the canons, the six notturni, K. 355, K 574, K. 411....
Has there ever existed a greater composer for winds than Mighty Mo? I love the original Serenade's piquant, almost strident sound over the Quintet's smoothness. Hausmusik indeed!
Another favorite c-minor masterpiece is the Masonic Funeral Music K 477. What a small gem!
Enjoy it also for orchestra as a symphony: th-cam.com/video/JF9KqHkL88I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=D7RUVbyv6iFszzu2
Thank you so much Mr Atkinson! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with many new amazing videos!
OMG, I absolutely love this Serenade and especially the third movement. As soon as I have enough time to carefully watch this video, I will!
Love seeing a notification for a new video of yours, especially when it's on one of my favorite pieces. Also, thank you for introducing me to that adagio for basset horns. It's excellent! I'm still holding out hope that you'll get around to finishing that video on the c-minor fugue k.426/546(perhaps included in a larger video on Mozart's fugues in general?) but I'm probably just being greedy at this point.
I will get around to it soon!
@@Richard.Atkinsonand also remember the full, completely in-detail deep dive of:
1) Strauss's Don Quixote
2) Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
3) any Wagner opera / the Bach Matthaeuspassion
Wow I wasn't expecting this upload at all, what a pleasant surprise
I'm so happy I get to live in a timeline where we have Richard Atkinson's channel!
The counterpoint is intensified by the added texture of the little rhythmic figures in the themes, just like Bach.
The statistical probability that this video that I am only just starting to watch is going to be an awesome video that I am going to enjoy immensely is roughly 100%.
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The King Richard has returned!
Thank you Richard Atkinson for your musical education. I love Mozart, but I am not educated in music, a bit self educated in the history of music. I listen, go to concerts and buy music. Greetings from Iceland. Einar Kr.
A nice touch is that the second section begins like a "Monte Romanesca", in a brief nod to music of an earlier period (such as Corelli's trio sonatas).
2:00 It's funny that you mention that the second section of a minuet is like a mini-developement section from a sonata movement, because that's probably how Mozart thought about sonata form to begin with, like a blown-up and over-dimensional minuet. He learned composition with the helps of the famous Riepel treatise on melody and the minuet is literally Riepel's primary pedagogical tool for teaching the compositional craft. No coincidence that Mozart's first compositions as a child are minuets, too.
Awesome as usual, your analysis is perfect! Notice the second part of Minuetto shares the same harmonic structure with 'Eure Tukke' (Osmin) in the Einfuhrung aus dem Serail.
Ahhhhh yes! Missed you dude! Also what timing, as a fellow counterpoint enthusiast i yesterday started composing my own canons at each interval, inspired (of course) by Bach and by you! (Though starting diatonically as in the Goldberg variations, but for two unaccompanied voices)
Let me know when I can listen to it!
Babe wake up! New Richard Atkinson video dropped!
Mozart will remain forever the supreme master at writing for woodwind instruments!
Thanks a great piece of work; by Mozart but in this case by you.
Great video, thank you!
Charming, enlightening, mentally stimulating and emotionally satisfying. I look forward to your well thought out essays. Kudos. (Is there no end to how much Mozart impresses us with his genius?)
... Also, note that the motives in bar 12 and 13 has just been used... - three notes upwards and the three notes in the second basson are the same as when it entered.
Excellent
Happy 100th video, Richard!
Such a cyte video compared to the one passacaglia to rule them all!
I would love to see some more bruckner analyses, though I know how endless the amount of effort required is.
I have no substance to add but great video(which I haven't yet watched).
3:40 I really dislike when this happens. Usually it happens to, what many perceive as, minor parts of a work such as ornaments but it can make a huge difference in the character of themes inside a piece.
Quién es genio, es genio al derecho, al roverso, boca abajo, haciendo el pino o saltando a la pata coja ...no diga genio , diga Mozart!
is there any evidence of what exercises Mozart used to be able to hear canons or did it come to him automatically?
Okay, admit it! This channel's just a front to get impressionable kids hooked on Haydn, isn't it? You lure them in with catchy titles about Mozart or big ol' Bruckner symphonies, but it ALLLLLL leads back to Haydn in the end doesn't it, Haydn pusher! You think you're so slick, but I'm onto you!
At least I had some self control this time and didn’t actually play the Haydn piece 😂
god did
Oh,yes, what a masterwork!! But as Mozart arranged it for string quintet he should have arranged it also for orchestra what I tried here : th-cam.com/video/JF9KqHkL88I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=D7RUVbyv6iFszzu2
Makes one wonder if he knew the Musical Offering...
Dear Richard, you have done a great job presenting Mozart's superb skills at counterpoint in instrumental works. Even though you have cracked down several choral masterpieces by Bach, I have not seen any videos of yours doing that with Mozart's amazing choral counterpoint. How about Misericordias Domini KV 222 to start with? A great admirer of yours. th-cam.com/video/u5dGgwydwG4/w-d-xo.html
Also MORE BASSET HORN