ÿþ<html> <head> <title>Forest Hill Chamber Music Festival 2004</title> <style> a:link {color:888888;text-decoration: none} a:active {color:888888;text-decoration: none} a:visited {color:888888;text-decoration: none} a:hover {color:000000;text-decoration: none} </style> </head> <body bgColor=ffffff topmargin=15 leftmargin=0 text=555555 link=000000 alink=000000 vlink=000000> <center> <a href="index.html"><img src="title01w.gif" border=0></a><BR> <BR><font size=3> { <a href="p1.html">6/11</a> &nbsp; <a href="p2.html">6/12</a> &nbsp; <a href="p3.html">6/13</a> &nbsp; <a href="p4.html">6/13</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="artists.html">artists</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="notes.html">program notes</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="photos.html">photos</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="contact.html">tickets</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="ack.html">acknowledgements</a> } &nbsp; { <a href="intro.html">about</a> } <BR><BR><BR> <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR> <Td align=right valign=top> <table border=0 cellpadding=15 cellspacing=0><TR><TD align=right> <a href="n01-bach.html">Johann Sebastian Bach </a><BR> <a href="n02-beet.html">Ludwig van Beethoven </a><BR> <a href="n03-berg.html">Alban Maria Johannes Berg </a><BR> <a href="n14-druk.html">Jacob Raphael Druckman </a><BR> <a href="n04-dvor.html">Antonín DvoYák </a><BR> <a href="n05-hind.html">Paul Hindemith </a><BR> <a href="n06-mech.html">Kirke Mechem</a><BR> <a href="n07-mess.html">Olivier Messiaen</a><BR> <a href="n08-moza.html">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart </a><BR> <a href="n09-rohde.html">Kurt Rohde</a><BR> <a href="n10-ss.html">Charles Camille Saint-Saëns </a><BR> <a href="n11-scho.html">Arnold Schönberg </a><BR> <a href="n12-schub.html">Franz Peter Schubert </a><BR> <a href="n13-schum.html">Robert Schumann</a><BR> </td></tr></table> </td> <TD valign=top> <img src="black.gif" width=1 height=310><BR> </td> <TD valign=top width=500> <Table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=15><TR><TD> <font size=5><center><b>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</b><font size=2><br><i> b. 1756 Salzburg, Austria; d. 1791 Vienna, Austria</i></center><font size=3><br><br> <b>Sonata No. 20 in C Major For Piano and Violin,  Kurfürstin, K. 303 (293c) (1778); Trio For Piano, Clarinet, and Viola in E-flat Major,  Kegelstatt, K. 498 (1786) </b><br><br> A former prodigy who had been shown off to all the courts of Europe by his father, Mozart was still having trouble finding a permanent, paying position as he reached young adulthood. A journey made with his mother in hopes of securing a good position for him took them through several German towns and ultimately to Paris. <br><br>An extended stay in Mannheim introduced Mozart to what was probably the best court orchestra in Europe at that time, with some exceptional musicians, many of whom had originated in Bohemia. That Mannheim visit also introduced him to his future wife, in whose father s household he was lodged for a time. <br><br>During his Mannheim sojourn, Mozart undertook what became a set of six sonatas for piano and violin, the first three of which were completed before he continued on to Paris. The sonatas were published in November 1778 in Paris as Mozart s Opus 1, though he already had several other  Opus 1 publications elsewhere. <br><br>Mozart s mother fell ill and died while they were in Paris, and no hoped-for position had been attained for all their efforts and the rigors of travel that they had endured. The manuscripts for the six sonatas were left behind, and Mozart never saw them again. <br><br>In January 1779, shortly before his final return to Salzburg, Mozart presented his latest published <i>Oeuvre Premier</i> to the work s dedicatee, the Palatine Electress Elisabeth Maria; hence, the German epithet applied to the set of sonatas,  Kurfürstin, or  Princess. With one exception, these six sonatas have only two movements, not the more usual three. <br><br>Mozart is known to have been able to compose a complex work fully in his head before setting pen to paper. This has provided the myth and misnomer of the  Kegelstatt trio, supposedly created while Mozart played a game of ninepins, a pastime also referred to as  skittles or  kegeling. One would play such a game at a  Kegelstatt, (<i>i.e.,</i> a place for kegeling). <br><br>Scholars have since pointed out that the subtitle  Kegelstatt was probably erroneously transferred from Mozart s set of Twelve Duos For Two Wind Instruments, K.487. The manuscript of those duos, dated nine days earlier than the trio, bears the inscription  untern Kegelscheiben (during a game of skittles). <br><br>Mozart wrote this trio, in addition to his seven trios for piano, violin, and viola, for his own use at concerts in Vienna. The premier was played by virtuoso clarinetist Anton Stadler, formerly a member of the Mannheim orchestra, while the viola part was premiered by a cellist. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr> </table> </body></html>