any mozart fans here

[historian]

Im in heaven - just received all the mozart piano concertos with Arthur Rubinstein and Emmanuele Ax (spelling?)
bliss and ecstacy - why oh why are people like mozart allowed to die???

[nostamj]

1. love mozart BUT

you did mean to post this in the Lounge, didn't you?

[historian]

4. i never know where to post anything

the mods move it if its inappropriate - sorry

[nostamj]

7. don't feel bad

but GD is pretty much political/social discussion while the Lounge is anything goes, including lots of culture threads.

i expect a mod *will* move it though.

the meeting room is also nice for more laid-back discussions. Lounge is FAST... like GD.

:hi:

[laruemtt]

2. rachmaninoff

fan here. but enjoy!

[are_we_united_yet]

10. Waiting for something significant to say for 1000th post

Here it is. Rachmaninov is great.

[Solomon]

3. I love his operas too. Got 'em all on laser disc.

Cossi Fan Tutte is exquisite. Especially when quartets sing different words at the same time and you hear and understand all of it. Outstanding.

[historian]

6. i have most of his stuff

except for his requiem - it gives me a feeling of enormous anguish

[whistle]

5. Didn't Mozart actually die around 1756 at the young age of 37?

...He was a musical genius, a terrible businessman and a drunk. But his music has lived on for nearly 250 years and will live on as long as there are civilized, cultured human beings who appreciate fine music. Which brings up the November election. To assure that civilization and the arts continue in our culture (funds baddly needed), we really need to get the Duffus and his chimps out of the White House and also clean house of all the Cro-Magnon republicans in congress and governorships around the country.:hurts:

[historian]

8. he was 35 and buried in a mass pauper grave

and yes i agree - can you imagine an opera entitled "Don Babba"? Giovanni is a darn ferrner

[kimchi]

9. Rock me Amadeus!

Sorry, it had to be said!

Mozart is my absolute favorite! My baby heard "little G" so many times in the womb that she actually falls asleep to it!

[historian]

11. good for you

You are raising a wonderful little child!!! Both my children were raised with mozart et.al and went through teen age years listening to the screeching we call music today, and have now discarded garbage in favor of real music (which is not to say only classical music is real - i mean music written with passion and not for the dollars)

[ozymandius]

In all my years in pub radio, you could never go wrong with Mozart.

I am preferential of his later works. Piano Concertos 9 and up; Symphonies 20 and up; the String Quintets...

Of his choral pieces, nothing surpasses the Requiem, K. 626 - a close second for tonal profundity is the Ave Verum Corpus - a very short work that sometimes catches a ride on a disc with a larger work.

[Turbineguy]

12. Fantastic!

Mozart makes all bad things go away.

May I suggest checking out the Robert Levin recordings of some of the Piano concertos? On one he actually uses Mozart's pianoforte.

[mmonk]

13. I'm a fan

and we all die. Yes, it was somewhat tragic dying as he did after composing the requiem. But death is part of life. And his life's work had lasting impact.