Thursday 05 July 2012 8:00 pm
Mozart und Sohn
Leopold Mozart: Small piano pieces
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata in e minor for violin and piano, K 304
Franz Xaver Mozart: Piano quartet in g minor, op. 1
Grande Sonate in E major for violoncello and piano, op. 19
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano quartet in E flat major, K 493
Nils Mönkemeyer, viola
Danjulo Ishizaka, violoncello
Markus Schirmer, piano
When Wolfgang was still quite young and had barely begun to outshine his sister, Leopold Mozart lovingly entered harpsichord pieces into an exercise book for his children. Thus began a radiant musical dynasty that would only last for three short generations to come. A half century later, his father dead and grandfather forgotten, Franz Xaver Mozart was referred to by his mother as “Amadeus Junior”. With the help of well-known colleagues and beautiful chamber music, Markus Schirmer paints a portrait of these three disparate Mozarts.
