Bard Music Festival Presents
Program Ten • A Lasting Influence: Mozart’s Legacy
11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
A master of all genres who revolutionized the opera and concerto forms, Mozart was instrumental in shaping the trajectory of Western concert music. Rather than attempting to capture the full scope of this singular impact, Program Ten, “A Lasting Influence: Mozart’s Legacy,” pairs Mozart’s unfinished, posthumously discovered D-minor Fantasia — a dark but well-loved masterpiece — with some of those of his peers’ and successors’ works that he inspired most directly. These include variations on a Papageno aria by Beethoven, on whose early career Mozart exerted a powerful influence; variations on a theme from Le nozze di Figaro by Beethoven’s friend, the Bohemian-born composer-theorist Anton Reicha; the formidably demanding piano fantasy on themes from Don Giovanni by Franz Liszt, who considered Mozart “the greatest of all masters”; selections from the piano arrangement of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Mozartiana, composed to mark the centennial of Don Giovanni; and the virtuosic concert fantasy on themes from The Magic Flute by Spanish violinist-composer Pablo de Sarasate. Finally, the String Sextet from Capriccio by Richard Strauss—the composer of this season’s SummerScape opera, The Egyptian Helen, and one in whom Mozart’s influence ran especially deep—offers a modern reflection on the Classical, Mozartean ideals of beauty and structural balance in a nostalgic 18th-century setting.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bmf26-p10/.
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Olin Hall
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