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00:00 Intro
1:01 ‘Mysterious Mozart’
1:19 A meal with Haydn
1:44 The greatest creative year of his life
2:28 What if Mozart had gone to London?
2:57 Mozart and Haydn were friends
4:44 Ave Verum Corpus
5:47 Music and spirituality.
6:11 Comparison with Shakespeare
7:20 Mozart excels at every genre.
8:00 Mozart's beginnings
9:01 Then the chorus comes in
9:25 It doesn’t matter whether you’re a believer or not.
10:11 The second phrase
10:30 “On the cross” - on a suspension.
12:07 The Third phrase…development
14:40 The final phrase…like a recapitulation.
16:00 The trial of death.
17:34 Liszt in 1862
19:17 The Sistine chapel
20:35 The Mozart miracle
22:17 Liszt’s singing piano
23:12 Tchaikovsky’s version
In June 1791, Mozart took a break from composing his final opera, ’The Magic Flute’ in order to visit his wife who was staying in a spa near Vienna called Baden bei Wien. Constanza was expecting their sixth child (Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart). Whilst Mozart was in Baden, he composed a short motet, 'Ave Verum Corpus', for his friend Anton Stoll, who was director of music at St. Stephan, Baden. The motet is only 46 bars long and is scored for chorus with strings and organ. The striking mix of apparent simplicity and profundity in the score are characteristic features of Mozart’s late style. This video discusses Mozart's final year, his friendship with Haydn and the music of his ‘Ave Verum Corpus' in detail, and concludes with Liszt’s 1862 arrangement of Mozart’s motet for piano solo.
Mozart: 'Ave Verum Corpus’ arranged for piano solo by Franz Liszt
Pianist: Matthew King
Matthew King says more about Mozart's final year in his video about Mozart and the Glass Armonica: youtu.be/80gxGnm1vMU?si=JBNDxvUHCEB-_bjY
The book quoted near the start of the video is ‘Mysterious Mozart’ by Phillipe Sollers.
Mozart’s original version of ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ K. 618 for chorus, strings and organ, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt: youtu.be/lqcCW0OA7es?si=sYXCf45HrhEMcm8X
Liszt’s original 1862 piano piece, ‘A la Chapelle Sixtine’ in which Allegri’s ‘Miserere’ and Mozart’s ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ appear to be in a kind of theological dialogue: youtu.be/tkAMKzRSrjc?si=AnEDMt6L0aDNIv7Q
Tchaikovsky’s arrangement of Liszt’s arrangement of Mozart’s ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ in his 4th orchestral suite, ‘Mozartiana’: youtu.be/6bYRgv-fiY4?si=OY-ZalCL-EbvLFt7&t=374
Allegri’s ‘Miserere’, performed by Tenebrae: youtube.com/watch?v=H3v9unphfi0&ab_channel=TenebraeChoir
Ian Damrau’s performance of the Queen of the Night’s aria, 'Der Hölle Rache’, from the Magic Flute: youtu.be/YuBeBjqKSGQ?si=rNXICxgbcPvuNyxv
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Edited by Ian Coulter ( iancoultermusic.com )
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00:00 Intro
1:01 ‘Mysterious Mozart’
1:19 A meal with Haydn
1:44 The greatest creative year of his life
2:28 What if Mozart had gone to London?
2:57 Mozart and Haydn were friends
4:44 Ave Verum Corpus
5:47 Music and spirituality.
6:11 Comparison with Shakespeare
7:20 Mozart excels at every genre.
8:00 Mozart's beginnings
9:01 Then the chorus comes in
9:25 It doesn’t matter whether you’re a believer or not.
10:11 The second phrase
10:30 “On the cross” - on a suspension.
12:07 The Third phrase…development
14:40 The final phrase…like a recapitulation.
16:00 The trial of death.
17:34 Liszt in 1862
19:17 The Sistine chapel
20:35 The Mozart miracle
22:17 Liszt’s singing piano
23:12 Tchaikovsky’s version
In June 1791, Mozart took a break from composing his final opera, ’The Magic Flute’ in order to visit his wife who was staying in a spa near Vienna called Baden bei Wien. Constanza was expecting their sixth child (Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart). Whilst Mozart was in Baden, he composed a short motet, 'Ave Verum Corpus', for his friend Anton Stoll, who was director of music at St. Stephan, Baden. The motet is only 46 bars long and is scored for chorus with strings and organ. The striking mix of apparent simplicity and profundity in the score are characteristic features of Mozart’s late style. This video discusses Mozart's final year, his friendship with Haydn and the music of his ‘Ave Verum Corpus' in detail, and concludes with Liszt’s 1862 arrangement of Mozart’s motet for piano solo.
Mozart: 'Ave Verum Corpus’ arranged for piano solo by Franz Liszt
Pianist: Matthew King
Matthew King says more about Mozart's final year in his video about Mozart and the Glass Armonica: youtu.be/80gxGnm1vMU?si=JBNDxvUHCEB-_bjY
The book quoted near the start of the video is ‘Mysterious Mozart’ by Phillipe Sollers.
Mozart’s original version of ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ K. 618 for chorus, strings and organ, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt: youtu.be/lqcCW0OA7es?si=sYXCf45HrhEMcm8X
Liszt’s original 1862 piano piece, ‘A la Chapelle Sixtine’ in which Allegri’s ‘Miserere’ and Mozart’s ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ appear to be in a kind of theological dialogue: youtu.be/tkAMKzRSrjc?si=AnEDMt6L0aDNIv7Q
Tchaikovsky’s arrangement of Liszt’s arrangement of Mozart’s ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ in his 4th orchestral suite, ‘Mozartiana’: youtu.be/6bYRgv-fiY4?si=OY-ZalCL-EbvLFt7&t=374
Allegri’s ‘Miserere’, performed by Tenebrae: youtube.com/watch?v=H3v9unphfi0&ab_channel=TenebraeChoir
Ian Damrau’s performance of the Queen of the Night’s aria, 'Der Hölle Rache’, from the Magic Flute: youtu.be/YuBeBjqKSGQ?si=rNXICxgbcPvuNyxv
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Edited by Ian Coulter ( iancoultermusic.com )
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