2007-06-12 02:44:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
If I had to pick just one piece by Mozart as my all-time favorite, I'd have to choose "The Magic Flute." This opera is a total delight! It has everything one could wish for in an opera: drama, humor, love, betrayal, treachery, nobility, devotion, spirituality--not to mention music that is just overflowing with Mozart's incomparable genius, start to finish.
My favorite performance of this opera remains the "movie version" directed in 1975 by Ingmar Bergman. It is available from Netflix (and elsewhere), and every lover of this opera should see it.
2007-06-12 12:32:15 · answer #1 · answered by clicksqueek 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to give just one. But I'll restrain myself to my favorite as of today.
The Adagio from K 361. This is the 3rd movement (I think!) from the so-called "Gran Partita," which is a serenade in Bb for 13 winds. It has absolutely one of the most beautiful melodies I've ever heard. Especially given that the melody contains some really large leaps in the second half...
Someone else mentioned the coda of the Jupiter symphony, which is a fantastic moment! What's remarkable about that is not the layering of five themes, but that the themes ALSO work when layered in a different order (soprano becomes bass, etc...). That's the joy of invertible counterpoint. Not just that you can slam five themes on top of each other...
Also, I'd recommend ANY Mozart work in minor keys. There are actually surprisingly few. (out of the 41 symphonies attributed to Mozart, there are 2 in minor, I think!) The c minor wind serenade is another great one (which he later transcribed for string quintet, which loses a lot of instrumental color).
2007-06-12 02:56:44 · answer #2 · answered by Edik 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
D minor Piano Concerto...a late work. So dramatic, and then., so lovely. Very tender to very powerful. A real prelude to middle period Beethoven. Fantastic off-beat syncopated rhythms right from the start. Put Mozart all alone as the greatest classical period composer.
Otherwise, the entire Marriage of Figaro opera, which if you haven;t seen it with subtitles, you should... It's very funny, although long. Some fabulous solos as well ans group numbers, especially the whole lead to the end of act one.
The ;libtrettist actually come to the USA and lived in NY.
2007-06-12 08:06:18 · answer #3 · answered by Legandivori 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is an extremely difficult question to answer. There are so many potential choices... one of the late piano concertos, one of the operas, symphonies and what about the small ensemble pieces many of which are fabulous and remarkable.
I suppose I would have to pick the opera Don Giovanni, even though I'm a pianist, perhaps the greatest opera ever written with music that is just sublime, or how about piano concerto No.27 in B flat, or Symphony No.40 - yet another masterpiece.
Its no good, to pick one piece of Mozart... you are just asking too much!
2007-06-12 05:28:44 · answer #4 · answered by Malcolm D 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The sonata that Legandivori is talking about is the Sonata in D, K. 284. This is a gem that should be better known. By the way, the 11th variation in the final movement is a great piece to learn how to improvise ornaments in Mozart's style, since the right hand part exists in a simplified version (the autograph) and one with ornaments written out (the first publication). Modern editions give you both.
2016-05-18 00:50:44 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has to be his Symphony No 25 in G minor. The stormy start got me hooked from the very beginning. I previously thought Mozart's works were all happy-happy joy-joy, but this caught me off guard. Later I discovered Symphony No 40 and of course, his Requiem. But Symphony No 25 is the one for me.
2007-06-12 21:19:01 · answer #6 · answered by jarod_jared 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jupiter Symphony -- #41 in C
It represents the first "cyclic" symphony -- one in which a theme recurs in all the movements, and in the finale, he employs 5-voice invertible counterpoint in the coda -- all 5 themes of the movement played against eachother Absolutely amazing work.
2007-06-12 11:10:16 · answer #7 · answered by glinzek 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Alma Dei Creatoris - great treble part
Exsultate Jubilate - incredible piece, incredible translation of the words
Waisenhaus Mass - To God be the Glory!
2007-06-12 12:43:07 · answer #8 · answered by Shadowfaxw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Edik. It sure is hard to name only one. Mozart's works are really nice and are all with feeling. Some give excitement, some sadness and others anger.
One of my favorites is his Concerto in Eb Maj., K 482 3rd mvmnt. Another one is his Rondo Alla Turka.
:)
2007-06-12 03:59:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have CD with 2 of my favorites I listen to in the car after a hard day....Symphony #41 and the "Jupiter"...easy melodies and great stress relievers as I drive.
2007-06-12 03:14:28 · answer #10 · answered by ladykathrynct 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋