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Fathers and Sons: Esteemed Chamber Works at Bard College Summer Music Festival (Annandale-on-Hudson) (Site)

Saturday August 8, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

$25
Fathers and Sons: Esteemed Chamber Works at Bard College Summer Music Festival (Annandale-on-Hudson)

Program Two, “Fathers and Sons,” helps contextualize Mozart among his older contemporaries. His first significant violin sonata (K296), the first of his Viennese Quartets, and several of his earliest arias and songs will be heard alongside violin duets by his father and primary teacher, Leopold Mozart, a composer-violinist who authored a seminal treatise on his instrument; the “Sonata d’intavolatura” for keyboard by prominent Italian composer Giovanni Battista Martini, who mentored Mozart as a child; the Sextet in C by Johann Christian Bach, a student of Martini’s known as the “London” Bach, who greatly influenced Mozart; and the sixth “Prussian Sonata” by J. C. Bach’s half-brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, a leading proponent of Empfindsamkeit (“sensitive style”), whom Mozart held in especially high regard, saying: “He is the father, we are the children.”

PROGRAM

1 pm • Preconcert talk
1:30 pm • Performance: Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord; Luosha Fang, violin/viola; Alexandra Knoll, oboe; Karl Kramer, horn; Grace Park, violin; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Michael Stephen Brown, Kayo Iwama, and Anna Polonsky, piano; and others

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–91)
String Quartet in F, K168 (1773)
Sonata in C, for piano and violin, K296 (1778)
Songs and arias

Giovanni Battista Martini (1706–84)
Sonata No. 2 in D, “Sonata d’intavolatura” (pub. 1742)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–88)
Piano Sonata in A, “Prussian Sonata No. 6,” Wq 48/6 (1740–42)

Leopold Mozart (1719–87)
From Twelve Duets, for two violins (1770)

Johann Christian Bach (1735–82)
Sextet in C, Op. 3, W.B78 (pub. 1785)

Artwork: Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (Salzburg, 1756-Vienna, 1791) playing in Paris with his father, Léopold, and his sister Maria-Anna; Alamy

Details

Date:
Saturday August 8
Time:
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cost:
$25
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Website:
https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bmf26-p1/

Venue

Fisher Center
60 Manor Avenue
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 United States
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