Liszt also composed a fantasy on Mozart's work, preceded by a version of Allegri's celebrated ' Miserere ', under the title ' À la Chapelle Sixtine ' 461 – two versions.

* Documents describing Mozart's transcription of the Allegri Miserere

He concentrated more on the piano than any other instrument, and his time in London in 1791 and 1792 generated the composition and publication in 1793 of three piano sonatas, opus 2, which idiomatically used Mozart's techniques of avoiding the expected cadence, and Clementi's sometimes modally uncertain virtuoso figuration.

Although the total of nine performances was nothing like the frequency of performance of Mozart's later success The Magic Flute, which for months was performed roughly every other day, the premiere is generally judged to have been a success.

Some of Mozart's early symphonies are Italian overtures, with three movements running into each other ; many are homotonal ( all three movements having the same key signature, with the slow middle movement being in the relative minor ).

Mozart's participation increased with his contributions to the 1790 collaborative opera Der Stein der Weisen ( The Philosopher's Stone ), including the duet (" Nun liebes Weibchen ", K. 625 / 592a ) and perhaps other passages.

Mozart's choral works, though not as numerous as his works for other media, stand out as some of his greatest ( such as the " Great " Mass in C minor and Requiem in D minor, the latter of which is often considered the greatest Requiem Mass of all time ).

It seems that Mozart's prestige, along with the fact that he frequently appeared in public directing other musicians, led to the use of " Kapellmeister " as a term of respect.

Another noted 18th century librettist was Lorenzo da Ponte, who wrote the libretti for three of Mozart's greatest operas, as well as for many other composers.

The other exceptions include a boy's choir " Christmas Medley " played while the characters drive through Los Angeles, the Molto allegro from Mozart's Jupiter Symphony ( heard as Annie and Alvy drive through the countryside ), Tommy Dorsey's performance of " Sleepy Lagoon ", and the muzak version of the Savoy Brown song " A Hard Way to Go ", playing over a party in the mansion of Paul Simon's character.

She sang a total of three other roles at the Met: Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo ( in its Metropolitan Opera premiere ), Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, the role of her final performance with the company on March 26, 1987.

: The circumstances which necessitated such fearful exertion on this and many other occasions in Mozart's life we have no means of ascertaining.

Some of the greatest compositions in the genre have unique common names other than Missa solemnis, namely Bach's Mass in B minor and Mozart's Great Mass in C minor.

The Academy has also recorded Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Handel's Orlando and Rinaldo, Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, Haydn's L ' anima del filosofo and over 200 other recordings for Decca, Harmonia Mundi ( France ), EMI and the new live recording label Wigmore Hall Live.

The principal psychological theme of the opera is, however, the demands of love against the demands of Kingship, as Aminta, the Shepherd-king, tussles with his conscience, and in this Il re pastore is closer in theme to Idomeneo than any other of Mozart's operas.

In 1781, shortly after Mozart had moved to Vienna, van Swieten met him again: at the salon of Countess Thun, Mozart played extracts from his recent opera Idomeneo, with van Swieten and other important officials in the audience ; this event helped instigate Mozart's commission for the opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, his first great success as a composer.

Her other opera roles included the title role in Handel's Acis and Galatea, Liù in Puccini's Turandot, Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte, and Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff among others.

He recorded Ysaÿe's solo violin sonatas op. 27 and Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin, the Beethoven violin concerto, Bach's single and double violin concertos, Mozart's 4th and 5th violin concertos, and other works, including the two Brahms Viola Sonatas on the viola.

In this context it is worth noting two other works written for Stadler and his instrument by composers closely linked to the Mozart – Stadler circle that used the extended range of Stadler's instrument: the clarinet concerto by Franz Xaver Süssmayr ( famous for having completed Mozart's Requiem ) and that by Joseph Leopold Eybler.

Although Mozart died before completing the requiem, Mozart's wife arranged for several other composers, most notably Franz Xaver Süssmayr, to complete the work in order to gain the remainder of the sum Walsegg had promised.

Among the songs and movements that were played in the serial were Handel's " Air con Variazioni " from Suite No. 5 in E Major HWV 430 and " Slumber, Dear Maid " from his opera Xerxes, Mozart's " Rondo Alla Turca ", " Voi Che Sapete " and other music from his operas The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni, Beethoven's Andante Favori, the second movement from Muzio Clementi's Sonatina No. 4 and the traditional folk song " The Barley Mow ".

His signature roles are Baron Ochs von Lerchenau in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier ( a role that he has performed in over 22 productions all over the world ), Sarastro in Mozart's The Magic Flute, and King Philip in Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos, but he sings many roles that are rarely attempted by other basses because of his tremendous range.

Berry's other signature roles were Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Figaro and Bluebeard.

As of 2006, the Mozart Festival has performed well over 2, 000 works in over 30 locations, including 278 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 626 compositions — possibly more than any other festival or concert series in the country.

For the final version, Malick combined pieces of Horner's music with the prelude to Wagner's Rheingold, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, and other pieces to create the score to the film.

According to the British Epilepsy Organization, research has suggested that apart from Mozart's K. 448 and Piano Concerto No. 23 ( K. 488 ), only one other piece of music has been found to have a similar effect ; a song by the Greek composer Yanni, entitled " Acroyali / Standing in Motion " ( version from Yanni Live at the Acropolis performed at the Acropolis ).

There were, of course, some concerti grossi that remained, the most famous of which being Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat Major.

He has used this program to great effect with composers such as Bach and Mozart ( his program Experiments in Musical Intelligence is famous for creating " Mozart's 42nd Symphony "), and also within his own pieces, combining his own creations with that of the computer.

In 1771 Mozart's copy was procured and published in England by the famous traveler and music historian Dr. Burney.

Mozart's most famous pupil, whom the Mozarts took into their Vienna home for two years as a child, was probably Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a transitional figure between Classical and Romantic eras.

In contrast, Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer, who premiered the role of the Queen of the Night, evidently needed little such help: this role is famous for its difficulty.

He was a famous Don Giovanni in Mozart's eponymous opera as well as being a Bellini and Donizetti specialist.

77 uses a double bass, and Mozart's famous Eine kleine Nachtmusik may be performed with this instrumentation ( the double bass being optional ).

Its repertoire mainly features a marionette production of Mozart's famous Don Giovanni.

The " Schickele " or " S ." numbers whimsically assigned to P. D. Q. Bach's works parody musicologists ' catalogues of famous composers, such as the Köchel catalogue of Mozart's works.

In the context of the turquerie fashion, the seraglio became the subject of works of art, the most famous perhaps being Mozart's Singspiel, Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( The Abduction from the Seraglio ).

In vocal music he is considered inferior to Scarlatti, and none of his famous duets, despite their charm, can compare for seriousness of intention with the Sicilian master's chamber-cantatas with the exception of Avanti il levar de la tenda ( See external references below ) which is superior in melodic construction and is a precursor to Mozart's work for voice.

Franz Xaver Süssmayr ( German: Süßmayr ; sometimes written in English as Suessmayr ; 1766 – September 17, 1803 ) was an Austrian composer, now famous for his completion of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem.

Works of this type also appeared in later eras, but usually in a context that referred specifically to a past time, such as an arias in an opera ( there is a famous example in Mozart's Don Giovanni ).

* Occasionally, the reappearance of the opening material at the beginning of the recapitulation is in the subdominant key ( a famous example is Mozart's Piano Sonata K. 545 ), which serves the same resolving function as the tonic.

Szirmai created piano solos of arias from famous operas — Mozart's Don Giovanni, Carmen, La Traviata, Gounod's Faust, Lohengrin, et al., but this book never achieved the popularity of the Gilbert & Sullivan book.

Among the more famous items in its collection are the oldest biblical illustrations, in the 5th century Quedlinburg Itala fragment, a Gutenberg Bible, the main autograph collection of Goethe, the world's largest collection of Johann Sebastian Bach's and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's manuscripts, and the original score of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.

He appeared, too, in several German operas by Richard Wagner and was a famous Don Giovanni in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera of the same name.

The better known of these is an air, reserved for the Omer weeks between Passover and Shavuot, which has been variously described, because of certain of its phrases, as an adaptation of the famous political song " Lillibullero " and of the cavatina in the beginning of Mozart's " Nozze di Figaro.

The house was famous as the first theatre in London to be lit by gas and for hosting the London première of Mozart's opera Così fan tutte.