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the first time with the absence of his father in Mannheim than to composing.
It was in Mannheim that he fell in love with Aloysia Weber, whom he even
wanted to take to Italy to establish as a prima donna. Of course, the plan was
never realised; in a letter Leopold accused Wolfgang of being irresponsible
and disloyal to the family.
The Quartet for flute and strings K 285 was the only of the flute quartets that
Mozart managed to bring to its final form; the other two quartets have only
two movements. In all of the movements the foreground is taken by the solo
instrument – the flute. With its rich melodies the Allegro is one of Mozart’s
most thoughtful works, while the most popular movement is the Andante,
a melancholy serenade for the flute in B Minor. The quartet is concluded
with a lively Rondo.
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Centenarian Elliott Carter is regarded as the greatest living American composer,
an artist who has experienced and outlived two generations of American
composers. As a teenager he was most influenced by Charles Ives, then
while studying at Harvard he also pursued a music education at the Longy
School. Between 1932 in 1935, he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris,
focusing his attention on strict counterpoint. On his return to the USA, Carter
settled in New York and began his long career as a professor; he taught at
the leading American universities and colleges, for which he wrote choral
works. After his first neoclassical instrumental works he distanced himself
from neoclassicism and eagerly set about finding other means of musical
expression. In the 1950s, he tested his contrapuntal knowledge primarily in
the area of rhythm, and in the 1960s his compositions became ever more
fragmentary. A synthesis of the European and the American came increasingly
to the fore. On moving to London in 1981 Carter entered a new creative
period. The antagonisms of the earlier periods finally resolved themselves and
the composer received numerous awards and prizes for his work (including
twice being awarded the Pulitzer Prize). Carter is the loner of the American
composing scene and never attached himself to any group or school.
Scrivo in vento for solo flute from 1991 is one of the most subtle of Carter’s
works for solo instrument. It is dedicated to flutist Robert Aitken, who premiered
the work in 1991 in Avignon. It was there that Francesco Petrarch lived
from 1326 to 1353, to whom the composition owes its title: ‘scrivo in vento’
are the words that conclude the first quarto of sonnets Beato in sogno et di
languir contento, in which the poet describes his longing for an unachievable
love – predestined to be unrealised, his love for Laura is built in the sand and
written in the wind. With its fragile and fragmentary music, the flute follows
the poet’s fleeting and even contradictory emotions.
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In the Haydn year at the Maribor Festival we will hear Symphony No. 1 by
the ‘father of the symphony’, and we will also hear the last symphony, with
the venerable number 104. Between composing his first and last symphonies
Haydn trod a long life and compositional path, where the symphony developed
from a predominantly light genre into the ambitious form that we today