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Daniel Hope & Friends I with Juho Pohjonen SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL 30TH FESTIVAL SEASON MARCH 28–APRIL 13, 2019 PROGRAM NOTES BY KEN MELTZER DANIEL HOPE & FRIENDS I WITH JUHO POHJONEN Friday, March 29 at 6 pm Trinity United Methodist Church Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in On the other hand, Maynard Solomon, in his Salzburg, Austria, on January 27, 1756, and died biography (Mozart: A Life, HarperCollins, New in Vienna, Austria, on December 5, 1791. York, 1995), contends that Hoffmeister: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791) was so little discouraged by the reception Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478 Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478 of this his first Mozart publication that he (1785) I. Allegro (1785) issued eleven others of his works over the II. Andante Approximate performance time is 27 minutes. next three or four years. These included III. Rondo. Allegro SMF performance history: 3/28/10 several of Mozart’s more uncompromising compositions, such as the String Quartet String Duo No. 2 for Violin and Viola in B-flat Major, K. 424 (1783) The Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478, is the first in D, K. 499 (“Hoffmeister”), the Fugue in C I. Adagio; Allegro of two that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed minor for two pianos, K. 426, and the Sonata II. Andante cantabile for a chamber ensemble of violin, viola, cello, and in C for piano duet, K. 521. III. Thema (con variazioni). piano. Mozart completed the work in Vienna on Andante grazioso October 16, 1785. The second Piano Quartet, in There is no question that the Piano Quartet, K. E-flat Major, K. 493 (see page 100), was finished 478, imposes considerable technical challenges INTERMISSION in June of the following year. upon all four of the musicians. And, it is quite possible that the dark and brooding nature of Prelude and Fugue No. 2 for String Trio Franz Anton Hoffmeister, an Austrian music some of the music—typical of Mozart’s works in in G minor, K. 404a (after J.S. Bach) publisher and composer, published the G minor G minor—took early audiences by surprise. The (1782) Piano Quartet in December of 1785. It appears G minor Quartet is now universally recognized Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, that Mozart was undergoing some financial as one of Mozart’s finest and most dramatic K. 493 (1786) difficulties during the interim period between the chamber works. I. Allegro composition and publishing of the Quartet. On II. Larghetto November 20, 1785, Mozart wrote the following: I. Allegro—The Quartet opens in striking fashion, III. Allegretto with a brusque dialogue between the ensemble Dearest Hoffmeister! and piano, introducing the Allegro’s first principal theme. An extended and varied treatment of the Benny Kim, violin I turn to you in my distress and beg you theme resolves to a flowing, major-key melody, Paul Neubauer, viola to help me out with some money, which I followed by a more playful sequence, introduced CarlaMaria Rodrigues, viola need very badly at the moment…Forgive by the violin. The exposition concludes with a Eric Kim, cello me for constantly worrying you, but as descending motif, initially played by the violin, Keith Robinson, cello you know me and are aware how anxious then repeated by the piano. The development Juho Pohjonen, piano I am that your business should succeed, section begins in subdued fashion, but soon I am convinced that you will not take my becomes quite agitated. A forceful restatement importunity amiss and that you will help me of the opening theme initiates the recapitulation, as readily as I shall help you. predominantly in the minor key. The opening theme returns once again to serve as the basis According to Georg Nikolaus Nissen (Constanze for the terse concluding measures. Mozart’s second husband) the G minor was intended as the first of three Piano Quartets by II. Andante—In the second movement Andante, Mozart to be published by Hoffmeister. However, the Allegro’s terse drama yields to rapt lyricism. again according to Nissen: “Mozart’s first piano The slow-tempo movement features a series quartet in G minor was so little thought-of at of hushed episodes, notable for their striking first that the publisher Hoffmeister sent (Mozart) interplay between piano and strings. A varied the advance on the honorarium on the condition reprise of those episodes leads to a pianissimo that he not compose the two other agreed-upon close. quartets and Hoffmeister was released from the contract.” SAVANNAHMUSICFESTIVAL.ORG | BOX OFFICE 912.525.5050 1 SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL 30TH FESTIVAL SEASON MARCH 28–APRIL 13, 2019 III. Rondo. Allegro—The piano immediately both very sad about our poor, bonny, fat, darling Prelude and Fugue No. 2 for String Trio in introduces the Rondo finale’s tripping, principal little boy.” G minor, K. 404a (after J.S. Bach) (1782) theme. The Rondo is, by far, the sunniest of Approximate performance time is 6 minutes. the three movements, though even here, storm During this stressful period, Mozart still found SMF performance history: SMF premiere clouds occasionally darken the horizon. They are time to come to the aid of a friend and colleague. all dispelled, however, by the time of the jubilant Michael Haydn, the younger brother of Franz After Mozart relocated from Salzburg to Vienna closing measures. Joseph Haydn, was then serving as a court in 1781, he made the acquaintance of Baron musician in Salzburg. In 1783, the Archbishop Gottfried van Swieten (1733-1803), an amateur String Duo No. 2 for Violin and Viola in commissioned Michael Haydn to compose a composer and generous music patron. Swieten B-flat Major, K. 424 (1783) set of six duos for violin and viola. As a result of authored the libretto for Franz Joseph Haydn’s Approximate performance time is 20 minutes. illness, Haydn was able to complete only four of 1798 oratorio masterpiece, The Creation. SMF performance history: SMF premiere the duos. Mozart composed the remaining two Mozart participated in Swieten’s Vienna Sunday (G Major, K. 423, and B-flat Major, K. 424), and musicales, featuring the study and performance In July of 1783, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Michael Haydn was able (under his own name) to of the music of Bach and Handel. In an April 20, his wife, Constanze, traveled from their home in submit a complete set of six to the Archbishop. 1782 letter to his sister Nannerl, Mozart wrote: Vienna to Salzburg. For a number of reasons, it was a significant journey. The visit marked the Michael Haydn was greatly moved by Mozart’s The Baron van Swieten, to whom I go every first time in more than two years that Mozart had gesture. For the remainder of his life, Haydn Sunday, gave me all the works of Handel returned to his native city. In the spring of 1781, treasured the scores of Mozart’s two Violin and Sebastian Bach to take home with me Mozart asserted his independence by abruptly and Viola Duos as “something sacred.” Mozart (after I had played them to him). When resigning from the service of the Court of the himself obviously took pride in these works as Constanze heard the fugues, she absolutely Salzburg Archbishop, Hieronymous Colloredo. well. In December of 1783, Mozart wrote to his fell in love with them. Now she will listen to father, requesting that Leopold send the scores nothing but fugues, and particularly (in this Mozart took this bold step despite the pleas of the two Duos to him “as soon as possible,” kind of composition) the works of Handel of the Archbishop’s representatives and the presumably for use in Vienna. and Bach. composer’s father, Leopold—himself a prominent Salzburg musician. The situation was so I. Adagio; Allegro—The Duo begins with a noble, That same year, Mozart created a series of six acrimonious that Mozart delayed in returning to slow-tempo introduction (Adagio). The meter Preludes and Fugues scored for violin, viola, and Salzburg, in part because he feared he might risk shifts from 4/4 to 3/4 as the violin launches the cello, based upon the music of J.S. Bach, and his arrest by the Archbishop. principal Allegro and the initial central theme. A eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann. In the case of flourish by the violin precedes its introduction the Prelude and Fugue K. 404a, No. 2, Mozart Mozart’s disobedience of his father’s wishes of the syncopated second principal theme, composed the Prelude Music, followed by his placed considerable strain on their relationship. soon repeated by the viola. The development arrangement of Bach’s Fugue in F-sharp minor Matters worsened when, on August 4, 1782, section features excursions into the minor key. from Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV Wolfgang wed Constanze Weber. Leopold did not The violin inaugurates the varied recapitulation 883 (1742). approve of the union, viewing the marriage as of the principal themes. The closing measures, a rash and irresponsible move on his son’s part. punctuated by beguiling moments of silence, are Even after the wedding, Leopold continued to capped by a pair of forte chords. Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493 express his disapproval. Mozart seemed to take a (1786) bit of a retaliatory measure when, after the birth II. Andante cantabile—Mozart directs that Approximate performance time is 26 minutes. of his first child in June of 1783, he chose to name the second movement be played both in a SMF performance history: 3/24/16, 3/21/14, the baby not after Leopold, but after the child’s moderately slow tempo (Andante), and with 3/18/05 godfather.
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