Serenades and Divertimentos

Aug 30, 2006 ... The keyboard was also an intimate instrument. In Mozart's childhood, the household instrument in the German-speaking world was the clavichord, ... Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. At age five, he was already competent on keyboard and violin, had begun to ... From the expressive nuances of the clavichord to the grandeur of the organ, and from the brilliance of the harpsichord to the innovation of the fortepiano, ... Sep 6, 2022 ... Like many of my interested violinist friends I dusted off my unread copy of Leopold Mozart's Violin Treatise (published in the year of his son ... Brooklyn Wonders, “Did Mozart have a successful career” Thanks for WONDERing with us, Brooklyn! ... If you've ever played an instrument before, you'll know what ... And when toward the end of his short life Mozart ran into the clarinet player, Anton Stadler, he was enraptured by the sound of Stadler's instrument, a one of a ... Oct 14, 2024 ... In an attempt to make the recording as period accurate as possible, all of the musicians played on Baroque instruments using classical era bows. Because Mozart was not fond of this instrument, he did not ... At Mozart's time, the flute was a very different instrument from the instrument we play. “Musical prodigies … are probably no longer so rare; but what this little man can do in extemporizing and playing at sight borders the miraculous, ... Apr 3, 2014 ... He would soon go on to play the piano, organ and viola. In 1762, Mozart's father took Nannerl, now age eleven, and Wolfgang, age six to the ...