WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART & JOSEPH HAYDN QUARTETS
22 March 2024/19h00/ United Kingdom / Online
This film forms part of The Mozartists’ ongoing MOZART 250 series, and contains three works for string quartet that date from 1772.
MOZART 250 is the brainchild of The Mozartists’ conductor and artistic director Ian Page, and is conceived as a 27-year project that follows the chronological trajectory of the composer’s life and works in ‘real time’, running from the 250th anniversary of his childhood visit to London in 2014/15 to the 250th anniversary of his death in December 2041. In addition to anniversary performances of many of Mozart’s works, the series also seeks to deepen our understanding and appreciation of his music by contextualising it alongside the music of his contemporaries, and the series has already featured music by nearly fifty other composers, from Abel to Zimmermann.
Reflecting both Mozart’s early compositional output and The Mozartists’ own identity, the first few years of MOZART 250 have focused predominantly on orchestral and vocal music, but in 2021 they responded to COVID restrictions (which for a while stipulated that no more than six musicians could perform together) by creating a series of films of chamber music by Mozart, Haydn and Johann Christian Bach. The featured works all dated from 1763-1771, and will be used to populate the MOZART 250 website that they are in the process of building.
MOZART 250 is the brainchild of The Mozartists’ conductor and artistic director Ian Page, and is conceived as a 27-year project that follows the chronological trajectory of the composer’s life and works in ‘real time’, running from the 250th anniversary of his childhood visit to London in 2014/15 to the 250th anniversary of his death in December 2041. In addition to anniversary performances of many of Mozart’s works, the series also seeks to deepen our understanding and appreciation of his music by contextualising it alongside the music of his contemporaries, and the series has already featured music by nearly fifty other composers, from Abel to Zimmermann.
Reflecting both Mozart’s early compositional output and The Mozartists’ own identity, the first few years of MOZART 250 have focused predominantly on orchestral and vocal music, but in 2021 they responded to COVID restrictions (which for a while stipulated that no more than six musicians could perform together) by creating a series of films of chamber music by Mozart, Haydn and Johann Christian Bach. The featured works all dated from 1763-1771, and will be used to populate the MOZART 250 website that they are in the process of building.
