Mozart and Mendelssohn: both child prodigies, and when they meet... The first half of the concert belongs to Mozart. The Magic Flute was written in 1791, shortly before Mozart's death, the première conducted by the composer himself at the Theater auf der Wieden on 30 September. The overture won subsequent popularity as a concert hall piece. The young Mozart - himself an excellent violin player - would have been familiar with Italian violin concertos from his study trips to Italy, while on ...visits to Paris he also came under the influence of the French concerto style, primarily the works of the Italian-born French composer G. B. Viotti. Under these influences, it happened that in 1775, the then 19-year-old composer wrote five violin concertos within the space of only a year. Of these perhaps the most popular is the last work in the key of A major to be heard here, which - in reference to a passage in the rondo movement to which contemporaries ascribed an oriental flavour - was nicknamed "Turkish.”
At the age of just 17 in 1826, Mendelssohn wrote a concert overture for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, not connected to any performance of the play. The work brought immediate fame to its composer, who, despite his youth, was already a mature master with musical explorations and a series of wonderful works already under his belt. Sixteen years later, he was commissioned by King Frederick William IV of Prussia to write incidental music for the Shakespeare drama. Composed in 1842-43, the incidental music was premièred in Potsdam in October 1843 in the presence of the court and invited guests, and for a long time became an "obligatory accessory” to performances of the play. At the same time, the suite version of the incidental music would go on to conquer concert halls. At this concert, the incidental music will be heard in its entirety.
Presented by: Budapest Festival Orchestra
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