At first Mozart thought he needed to finish his opera in only two months, because tentative plans were made to perform it at the September visit of the Russian Grand Duke Paul ( son of Catherine the Great and heir to the Russian throne ).

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Noverre's friends included Voltaire, Mozart, Frederick the Great and David Garrick ( who called him " the Shakespeare of the dance ").

The Vermeer performed at virtually all the most prestigious festivals, including Tanglewood, Aldeburgh, Norfolk, Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Taos, Bath, South Bank, Lucerne, Stresa, Flanders, Kneisel Hall, Caramoor, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein, Orlando, Daniel, Edinburgh, Great Woods, Spoleto, Ravinia, and the Casals Festival.

In the 1980s Wuorinen began an association with the New York City Ballet which resulted in a series of works designed for dance, Five ( Concerto for Amplified Cello and Orchestra ) for choreographer Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Wuorinen's longtime colleague and champion Fred Sherry, Delight of the Muses based on works of Mozart and commissioned in honor of the Mozart Bicentennial and three works inspired by scenes from Dante ’ s la Divina Commedia for Peter Martins ( The Mission of Virgil, The Great Procession and The River of Light ).

* Great Mass in C minor, No. 17, K. 427, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

* Mozart: Great Mass in C minor ( 1782 / 1783 )

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Great Mass in C minor

She sang the title role in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah and Countess Almaviva in a landmark production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Met ; the Mozart production also starred Cecilia Bartoli, Susanne Mentzer, Dwayne Croft, Danielle de Niese, and Bryn Terfel and was broadcast on PBS ' Great Performances.

The Great Mass in C minor (), K. 427 ( K. 417a ), is a musical setting of the Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

* Mozart: Great Choral Works – Helen Donath ( Soprano ), Heather Harper ( Soprano ), Ryland Davies ( Tenor ), Stafford Dean ( Bass ), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis ( Conductor ).

* Mozart: Mass in C minor, K. 427 ( 417a ) " Great " – Barbara Schlick ( soprano ), Monika Frimmer ( soprano ), Christoph Prégardien ( tenor ), Klaus Mertens ( bass ), Collegium Cartusianum Orchestra, Cologne Chamber Choir, Peter Neumann ( conductor ).

* Mozart, Great Mass in C minor, preface ( German / English ) of the completion by Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs ( 2010 )

* Mozart: Great Mass in C minor, Mass in C major, Requiem / C. Davis

Aside from his contributions to music journalism, he published 13 books, most of them on music, including The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present ( 1963, revised 1987 ) — pianists were a specialty of Schonberg — and The Lives of the Great Composers ( 1970 ; revised 1981, 1997 ) which traced the lives of major composers from Monteverdi through to modern times.

A facsimile sheet of music from the Dies Irae movement of the " Requiem ( Mozart ) | Requiem Mass in D Minor " ( K. 626 ) in Mozart's own handwriting.

Those familiar with musical settings of the Requiem Mass — such as those by Mozart or Verdi — will be aware of the important place " Dies Iræ " held in the liturgy.

The Requiem Mass is notable for the large number of musical compositions that it has inspired, including settings by Mozart, Verdi, Dvořák, Fauré and Duruflé.

Famously, Mozart sets the " Kyrie " and " Christe " texts in his Requiem Mass as the two subjects of a double fugue.

* Mozart, Coronation Mass in C major, K. 317 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, OPERA EPK 3257

* Sparrow Mass, or Missa Brevis No. 10 in C major, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1775-76 )

* Coronation Mass ( Mozart ), or Mass No. 15 in C major, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1779 )

The Requiem Mass in D minor ( K. 626 ) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer's death on December 5.

* Mozart: Mass in C minor – Edith Wiens ( soprano ), Delores Ziegler ( mezzo-soprano ), John Aler ( tenor ), William Stone ( baritone ), Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Robert Shaw ( conductor ).

" He employed Mozart, the Kyrie Elieson < sup ></ sup > of the Mass in C Minor, music which had a " colour ," he said, matching that of the film.

Mozart begins to write the piece, the Requiem Mass in D minor, unaware of the true identity of his mysterious patron and oblivious of his murderous intentions.

In 2012, the masses were Mozart – Missa Solemnis K. 337 ; Dove – Köthener Messe and Bruckner – Mass No. 2 in E minor.

This was " Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by C. Bradlee, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts ", according to the Newberry Library, which also says, " The theme is that used by Mozart for his piano variations, Ah, vous dirai-je, maman.

The original scores, which dated from 1804 when the composer was twelve, were found in the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. Often transcribed for string orchestra, these sonatas reveal the young composer's affinity for Haydn and Mozart, already showing signs of operatic tendencies, punctuated by frequent rhythmic changes and dominated by clear, songlike melodies.

The harp found its early orchestral use in concerti by many baroque and classical composers ( Handel, J. C. Bach, Mozart, Albrechtsberger, Schenck, Dussek, Spohr ) and in the opera houses of London, Paris and Berlin and most other capitals.

* August 10 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his final symphony, now called the Symphony No. 41 in C Major, and nicknamed ( after his death ) The Jupiter.

* January 5 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart finishes Sonata in C for Keyboard.

Critics have found it unremarkable, but the Symphony in C of the same year has been warmly praised by later commentators who have made favourable comparisons with Mozart and Schubert.

In some pieces by Haydn and Mozart, such as Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 16 in C, K. 545, the first subject group will be in the subdominant and then modulate back to tonic for the second subject group and coda.

But the added, structural variations recall Diabelli's waltz, not Bach or Mozart or Cramer, and clearly highlight its most unimaginative aspects, especially its repetition of the C major tonic chord with G emphasized as the high note and the static harmony thus created.

Those of the Mozart Concertos K. 453, 466, 482, 491 & 503 ( G major, D minor, E-flat major, C minor and C major ) are particularly outstanding, especially the last three with the inspired, powerful conducting of John Barbirolli, Lawrance Collingwood and Josef Krips respectively, in 1935, 1937 & 1946.

The Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was described by Mozart himself in his own thematic catalogue as " for beginners ," and it is sometimes known by the nickname Sonata facile or Sonata semplice.

* Mozart: String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 ; String Quintet in g minor, K. 516 ; Adagio and Fugue in c minor, K. 546 with Gyorgy Pauk ( Decca 430 772-2 ) ( 1993 )

Programs for the Québec City and Halifax concerts of the 1790s reveal orchestral and chamber music by Handel, J. C. Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Pleyel.

* Mozart: Quartet in B-flat, K. 458 " Hunt "; Quartet in C, K. 465 " Dissonance "; Haydn: Quartet in C, Op.

Mozart esteemed J. C. Bach's music highly and arranged three sonatas from the latter's Op.

* Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major opus 14 ()

* Missa solemnis in C minor, " Waisenhaus ", No. 4, K. 139, also by Mozart

* Mozart: Missa solemnis in C minor " Waisenhaus ", No. 4, K. 139