[HN Gopher] Miraculous Mozart
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       Miraculous Mozart
        
       Author : tintinnabula
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2021-01-29 16:45 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | telesilla wrote:
       | I'm currently reading the book - Jan Swafford is masterful. See
       | https://g.co/kgs/2Jv69s for the book itself.
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       | I was waiting for this to come out since his book on Beethoven
       | was, and I mean this, a riveting page-turner, I devoured it:
       | https://g.co/kgs/KfQ34W. If you are a pianist you'll love it. So
       | far, the Mozart is equally good. Can't wait to finish it. Must
       | put down phone and return..
        
       | gnramires wrote:
       | I find the contrast and coherence between Mozart and Haydn really
       | wonderful.
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       | Those days I hear more Haydn than Mozart. Mozart's pieces are
       | amazing, but they're so powerful and distinctive I don't find
       | drawn to them over and over. Haydn's pieces are often just as
       | prodigious, but more modest; he calmly draws you in and paints
       | the main themes. I find hearing Haydn a journey. Mozart is more
       | catchy, viral, virtuosic. To me Mozart is miraculous in his
       | operas of course, but also when he set sights on "modest" forms
       | of the string and piano quartet (learning from Haydn no doubt).
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       | K 458 is a good example to me:
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYTuXWxNhxo
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       | I encourage everyone to discover Haydn as well! He had much more
       | time to develop the techniques and depths of composition, and it
       | shows in his later works. Mozart is good, but mature Haydn
       | pieces... I can hardly believe it's music I'm hearing and not a
       | beautiful story.
        
         | khazhoux wrote:
         | For anyone in the Bay Area: if we ever get out of pandemic, the
         | St. Lawrence String Quartet are artists-in-residence at
         | Stanford who specialize in Haydn. They have regular Sunday
         | afternoon performances, as well as three free noon concerts
         | during the summer. Their energy and enthusiasm for Haydn is
         | thrilling, and they're big supporters of living composers as
         | well.
        
         | madhadron wrote:
         | There's a standard joke among quartet players that Haydn builds
         | string quartets and Mozart destroys them.
         | 
         | New quartets begin playing Haydn because it all fits together
         | so solidly that it guides the quartet into gelling. Mozart
         | quartets regularly just don't have that scaffolding and the
         | quartet had better have their quasi-telepathic communication
         | down first.
        
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