Mozart - Rondo in a minor, K.511 (1787) {Ingrid Haebler}

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791) was one of the most influential, popular and prolific composers of the classical period. A child prodigy, from an early age he began composing over 600 works, including some of the most famous pieces of symphonic, chamber, operatic, and choral music.
Rondo for piano No. 3 in A minor, K. 511. Vienna, 11 March, 1787
Ingrid Haebler, piano
Description by Robert Cummings [-]
This is a dark work, composed in Vienna in the spring of 1787, shortly after Mozart returned from a trip to Prague. There is little doubt that the composer was expressing feelings of grief here, but the source of them remains a matter of speculation. Despite the sense of sadness in the opening theme and related material, the music exudes an elegance throughout, as if restraint is applied to curtail any effort to wallow in sorrow or pity.
The main theme is beautiful in its delicate lyricism, auguring the intimate side of Chopin's artistic muse, not only in its music but in the form it generates throughout the piece: a five-note turn at the beginning of the theme serves to launch the ensuing livelier episode that follows. Here the mood brightens a bit, but, overall, the dark atmosphere cast by the opening melody is never dispelled. There are other such thematic relationships among the various sections, with the main theme's parts providing the springboard for the material in the alternating sections. In the coda the music takes on an anxious manner at the outset, but turns gentle and soothing on the partial, upper-register reappearance of the main theme. Lasting about ten minutes, this masterfully conceived work is among Mozart's finest piano pieces.

[@LukS626]

I have no words for that. When anyone asks me, why do I listen to Mozart all the time, I show them a few of his pieces - this one is among them. I have everything I need in Mozart - sadness, joy, loneliness, playfulness, flowing ideas and a sense of despair. Magnificent cathedral-like pieces and little, intimate-mood gems. What a giant.

[@williambunter3311]

Yes, I have always enjoyed the sense of beautiful sadness in Mozart's music. When I was young, people used to ask me what I loved about Mozart, and I used to tell them that I loved the sadness. He had a very hard life in so many ways, so the sense of melancholy is understandable.

[@davidbrown8763]

He was a music god.

[@etiam161036]

Un régal pour le coeur 💓 Merci !

[@valtrberg901]

you have that in any composer

[@LukS626]

@@valtrberg901 If that was true, everyone would be on Mozart's level and yet there are only a few at max. And I was talking about my personal feelings which are, by definition, subjective. So no, I don't feel the same listening to "any" composer".

[@williambunter3311]

This was Chopin's favourite ever piece.

[@Cayres18]

Serius?

[@williambunter3311]

@@Cayres18 Yes, I believe so Frederik, according to something I read in a serious article once. But I must admit it seems strange. And to be honest although I love Mozart, I don't think this is his best work by a very long chalk.

[@barney6888]

Remarkable. Schumann, Chopin with a Beethoven ending. I've felt for a long time that Mozart's premature death was the greatest robbery in the arts. Can you imagine if he lived another 40 years to a mere 76!!

[@rocky49able]

Just another 15 years would have been enough for several more masterpieces.

[@jamjam9253]

@@rocky49able Even one year. Think of what he composed alone in 1791: Magic Flute, La Clemenza di Tito, Clarinet concerto, the last Piano Concerto, the Requiem.. many of his finest works!

[@petermerelis]

at least he graced the Earth long enough to produce what he did. it's enough to sustain us for a lifetime.

[@petermerelis]

an immeasurable loss too painful to contemplate. so I don't out of self preservation.

[@petermerelis]

you have it backwards. Schumann, Chopin and Beethoven are all Mozart

[@petermerelis]

there is only one piece of music I must hear every single day, and it is this one.

[@eerttree5340]

Rest in peace haebler. Thank you for the beautiful music you created for us.

[@martinyoung99]

I love this Rondo by Mozart, it's sentimental and melancholic...

[@syourke3]

Magical, perfection.

[@davidschestenger3366]

Ingrid Haebler is a legacy of what Mozart should be, her tempo is unique Exquisite

[@jovankabanjac2310]

Wonderful interpretation, full of spirit and poetry!

[@donaldgoodell7675]

It is always very helpful to listen to any performance of the great Mozart’s music with the autograph score in front of you - noticing the dynamics interplay (of pia: v. for: specifically written by Mozart to be play’d PRECISELY AS WRITTEN means pianists have to be very aware of exactly how much pressure is to be applied - the present performance by Ingrid Haebler technically and all too ‘neatly’ hits all the right ‘notes’ (of course) but she clearly paid less attention to Mozart’s specific dynamics - why ? Take good note of the careful dynamic markings of M. in the autograph at bar 15 for example which Ingrid Haebler (normally far more careful with her Mozart) totally rides roughshod through without so much as a howdy-doo as she does in at least 5 other places !) virtually ignoring a good number of Mozart’s meticulous dynamic markings that he clearly specified were to be play’d precisely as written-some of which are ‘unexpected’ and therefore more dramatic)- All you future pianists beware-if Haebler can get away with this kind of thing, heaven help the future generation of Mozartean interpreters ! 11 March 1787 was an icy cold day in Vienna according to the contemporary weather report and we can almost detect ‘a sudden nervous tick or chill’ in Mozart’s handwriting of the legato slur-marking in bars 69-70 (also an earlier tiny one on bar 59) whereas other legato slur-markings in the autograph are written out in graceful single curv’d lines as smooth as oil -like a dancer’s lithe movements on the floor- M. was apparently always very sensitive to the cold according to Leopold Mozart (even Thomas Atwood said that when he first met M. on the afternoon of 19 July 1785 ‘the weather was very hot in Vienna that day but Mozart was quite formally dress’d & busy working hard on one of the Haydn Quartets standing at his large stand-up writing table...but when I shook his hand, I notic’d it was as cold as ice-‘) Perhaps Mozart’s shaky legato slur markings in those 2 places were merely the result of ‘nerves’ at those particular bars-- knowing that his landlord wanted his 100 dukats by 30 April 1787 if he wanted to remain at his luxurious 6-room flat on the Landstrase (to-day mark’d as 5 Domgasse, Wien) he knew he had to cough up the geld or move (he did the latter on 1 May 1787) who knows ...

[@AnonYmous-ry2jn]

I feel like it would be easier to learn to play this like a virtuoso recitalist than to read that scrawl. Absolutely incredible anybody can read that.

[@daviribeiro8325]

Hey, love ur commentary. Witch is your favorite performance of this piece?

[@user-je7sx2hn2g]

Музыку надо слушать(слышать),как и поэзию...от многия знания много печали.

[@user-rb2nm5bj8i]

What a beautiful piece! 😭😭

[@GabrielSouza-tb9rl]

Love this channel

[@siulhisaleehernandezsantos6672]

Gracias

[@F-Man]

Loving the Mozart content lately!

[@carmenaballi]

Que preciosidad❤️. Que gran intérprete de Mozart era Ingrid Haebler

[@auvillars]

Merci 💕

[@charlottewhyte9804]

awesome

[@PointyTailofSatan]

You can hear the beginning of Mozart's use of Baroque style tension and chromatics.

[@jackjack3320]

It's not "baroque style". Listen to his colleague at the Salzburg cathedral, Michael Haydn's Classical styled masses such as kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZfFqIGIgNqJiNE or kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5jEnKqwrMl7acU or Mozart's own kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4XIfYtqrbierZY (all this stuff was written around 1772~3)

[@jackjack3320]

Seriously, listen to kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6HVhamBdtWWbsU , and the credo movement. The Baroque "Doctrine of the Affections" doesn't apply in any of these cases.

[@nickn2794]

@@jackjack3320 But, weren't both Haydn and Mozart influenced by baroque music, Bach etc?

[@elmiramuradova561]

Lovely composition! Soul is singing.Spectacular ,breathtaking !!! Совершенно потрясающее произведение,непохожее на другие,хотя Моцарт здесь сразу узнаваем,он совсем другой. О чем он писал ,о чем переживал,чего хотел… это ГРАНДИОЗНО! …!

[@DynamicMateTV]

Yes, it really sounds like Chopin... very bizzare. But if I never heard this piece I would not think Mozart could write something so modern sounding. Each time he surprises he proves again why he’s my favourite composer.

[@davidschestenger3366]

A miracle

[@damdarch]

It sounds Romantic. I wouldn't have pegged this as Mozart if I wasn't told.

[@nickn2794]

@Peter Rabbit mm. More like pre-romantic. Not even Beethoven is completely considered romantic. Mozart still has the balance of classicism. Not a bad thing though.

[@CarlBowlby]

Such delicacy, it’s almost delicious to the ears! One can almost hear this played on the pianoforte, a much more delicate instrument than the modern grand/baby grand. Wonderful touch here, one can say it’s Mozartean!

[@Eqnzo]

yo you still alive

[@CarlBowlby]

@@Eqnzo Very much so thank you. Yourself?

[@Eqnzo]

@@CarlBowlby your account is very old

[@CarlBowlby]

@@Eqnzo and your point is?

[@Eqnzo]

@@CarlBowlby you hadnt postes in a min

[@pachmann4869]

She is 91. Does anyone know what she has been up to the last decades?

[@paulhartson1]

WOW

[@laurentp.2086]

A noter, l'utilisation de la clé d'ut 3 pour la main gauche. Merci d'avoir montré le manuscrit.

[@jimmywalsh6701]

👌

[@jamjam9253]

No surprise that Mozart (and Bach) was Chopins favourite composer.

[@raymundovergararoman2473]

Were not was and also it's chopin's because parenthesis is mistankely used. Parenthesis is for (including or) complement or not something extra for the text

[@nickn2794]

@@raymundovergararoman2473 ok grammar nazi

[@raymundovergararoman2473]

@@nickn2794 Grammar? actually grammar has nothing to do here, this is bad orthography. Now no one knows to write down his ideas, we live the cultural decadence of the world.

[@justinrubin2533]

Is there any music after this? Impossible....

[@Piflaser]

Puccini

[@tj-ze4kq]

9:15

[@giacomozaccone2284]

Dear Bartje I would like to suggest a fantastic and emotional interpretation of the twelve variations on a menuet in C minor by J C Fischer,K 179(1774) By Pieter Jan Belder at Fortepiano Fortepiano after Walter 1795

[@charlottewhyte9804]

shame it,s not with normal print,manuscript hard to follow with piece

[@bartjebartmans]

Shame you don't get the point of the upload. Think again.

[@DavidMatine]

Why they kill him?