Austrian Antithesis
$22-$55
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major, K. 313
Marie Tachouet, flute
Mozart – Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major, K. 313
Bruckner – Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major “Romantic”
Our season ends in Austria – a country so pivotal in the development and growth of Western music.
Mozart loathed being in Salzburg and the suffocating clutches of his father and boss, the Archbishop. The light and refreshing Flute Concerto is one of the last works Mozart composed in his hometown before moving to Vienna to make his fame and (penniless) fortune.
The unique late-Romantic composer Anton Bruckner possessed a limited enthusiasm to leave his beloved Upper Austria for the musical epicenter of Vienna. He was not understood there and he was often homesick: his heaven-eclipsing Fourth Symphony was his big breakthrough piece with the Viennese cognoscenti, a fresh and flowing piece which harks back to nature, his childhood and the innocence of country life.