Mozart - Symphony No. 38, K.504 "Prague" (1786)

[@jasonroberts6666]

Love watching the master's hand writing go by as his divine music plays. Thank you!!

[@simonkawasaki4229]

It is written that the Prague audience loved Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro, specifically the enchanting woodwind writing. To appease his Bohemian audience's palette, while not lowering his own, he composed this immaculate symphony. One of my favorite symphonies. Thank you.

[@enzocypriani5055]

thank you so much for posting it with the manuscript!

[@shin-i-chikozima]

There is no such thing as hit or miss with Mozart's music All is splendid, great. The onlyproblem would be the good or bad performances and acoustics

[@omegads3862]

Sublime, even the third movment.

[@GianfrancoCavallaro]

Seguire un tale capolavoro sullo spartito scritto dall'autore, l'immenso Mozart, è un onore incommensurabile e una emozione profonda. Grazie per aver caricato questa meraviglia. Following such a masterpiece on the score written by the author, the immense Mozart, is an immeasurable honor and a profound emotion. Thank you for uploading this wonder.

[@Marcosclazar]

Thank you!!! That's the original Score!! Wauuu!!

[@markfurnell6748]

What a masterwork! I think this and 39 are his greatest....despite the fame of 40 and 41....great as THEY are. (PS. And I think ALL a composer's repeats ought to be obeyed!)

[@bartjebartmans]

LP's had not enough room for repeats. That's often the single reason why repeats were omitted.

[@markfurnell6748]

Good point! But I've seen many conductors ignore them in live concerts. The worst of all is Beethoven 7 without repeats. ...especially the first movement.

[@ricardoamez1608]

Intriguing comment, as the 40 & 41 are not only renowned, but also monumental works. My view is, in the musical evolution of a more complex Mozart, that the 38 should have been the 39 and vice versa. The harmony, the swings between major and minor keys, the heavy counterpoint, the fugues etc. In any case, all of them are the touchstone of the symphonic repertoire of all times.

[@windstorm1000]

Fabulous to listen while following along the actual manuscript its awe inspiring.

[@TrueBagPipeRock]

this is so good. infinite, circular energy just flowing

[@musicaantigua869]

Gracias y saludos cordiales desde Mallorca para ti también bartje bartmam explendido

[@omegads3862]

24:31 Beethoven's fifth. Beethoven was a crazy genius to use a common classical motif to build a whole symphony.

[@_PROCLUS]

Proclus agrees with Bartje Bartman's assessment of Mozart's place on the firmament ... 🌹

[@RichardWhite_Composer]

Interesting how the strings are at the top of the score as opposed to the bottom of the score, as has become tradition.

[@marcogiusti1358]

splendido vedere qui l'autografo, direi meno ascoltare: il finale e' PRESTO! pero' il direttore fa davvero venire il latte alle ginocchia

[@tube4beno]

Stunning !!

[@_PROCLUS]

💝💝💝 TY

[@MiltonY31]

Is it just me or does the part that lasts from timestamps 1:27 to 2:15 sound like it would be an allusion to Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca?

[@jurajf1]

Beautiful hand writing. I'm playing 1st violin from the screen with the orchestra. So much fun to think Mozart himself wrote this. Quill (or quill pen) is a writing tool which is made from a flight feather of a large bird and which uses ink to leave marks on a writing surface. What feathers were used as pens? Goose feathers were mostly used as they were easy to obtain, however more expensive feathers from swans were preferred. For making fine lines, a feather from a crow was the best, and eagle, owl, turkey, and hawk feathers have also been used.

[@aniag7490]

Перевод на русский

[@jurajf1]

@@aniag7490 Sorry darling, maybe Google translate or you learn English.

[@КириллПопов-з1ш]

Mozart lets go

[@samrose565]

1:27 sounds a bit like the Turkish March from his 11th Piano Sonata in A.

[@melvinblandin8704]

Sound also like Don Giovanni ouverture and maybe other pieces... But I think he was loving this kind of stuff with dobble crochets... Like the trills on his piano concertos, with broken chord accompaniment, and lot other things.

[@kellylhancock]

leaning chromatic scales for my misic class. the music sheet was handly thanks!

[@alecsachs9082]

I love Mozarts Symphonies. To this KZbin User can you please post some of Mozart’s Piano Concertos?

[@bartjebartmans]

They are all on KZbin with scores already.

[@tenshi03370]

It has the same opening as don giovani overture

[@analognostalgia9140]

Thanks so much for this great dramatic recording. If I understood well, it is Sawallisch/Prague for the first two movements then Böhm/Berlin, is that right? Warm greetings!

[@bartjebartmans]

I really wanted to upload the complete Sawallisch but the last movement of my CD was damaged and didn't want to rip. Hence, the Böhm substitute.

[@analognostalgia9140]

Thanks for the reply, I do love it the way they play, I ordered an LP...

[@marcogiusti1358]

@@bartjebartmans splendido il suo post per gli occhi, meno per le orecchie: il finale e' terribile Non aveva una interpretazione migliore? Impossibile non trovare qualcuno migliore di Bohm

[@drorgolan7121]

13:19

[@alecsachs9082]

Year of recording is 1980.

[@Usertepecfd]

20:53

[@christianwouters6764]

Peculiar that Mozart put a whole note in 4/4 in the middle of the bar, not at the beginning as we do nowadays ( at least, people who can read and write music, a dying race ;-)) . Was this common practice or a Mozart thing ?

[@bartjebartmans]

Yes very common. Whole notes in the middle of the measure. Dotted half notes, the dot would be often put on the 3rd beat, not with the half note.

[@melvinblandin8704]

At 1:40, on the top of the page there is like an h and an other letter in top of it. Is it a Mozart joke or musical notation...?

[@deibycoc1099]

¿La hoja está sucia o es la imagen?

[@bartjebartmans]

You need good bandwidth. This is a HD video.

[@ensifer329]

1:20 to 2:22 best part

[@corradogiachetta2154]

Everything is played way too slowly (except for the Adagio) Hummel (LITERALLY STUDIED WITH MOZART)wrote piano reductions for Mozart’s last symphonies and he left metronome marks. But everyone ignores them, as they ignore Beethoven’s. Allegro minim=88 Andante quaver=126 Presto minim=100 Here’s the thing: people played faster than we do today, and Mozart and hadyn are probably no exception. When will we start taking metronome marks seriously? If the goal is to be historically coherent , then our opinion is irrelevant if it contradicts the evidence. Aren’t you all tired of slow and careful performances that take no risks and sound ALL THE SAME? Sorry I got a bit carried away

[@bartjebartmans]

Music is simple. You like it or you don't. For the rest it is water under the bridge, sand through the fingers. Too slow, too fast. too this, too that is like scholars arguing about a speck on a manuscript score if it is a dot from a note or just fly poop. Enjoy the performances for what they are worth. Each one is different with their own merits, too bad if it doesn't adhere to your specific wishes.

[@Piflaser]

For Wim Winters authenticSound even this is too quick.

[@felixfourcolor]

Agree with all you said, except, I don't think the goal with music is to be historically correct. It's to enjoy ourselves.

[@torusato401]

Allegro のスピードは現代は早いように思います。モーツァルトの時代、都市間の移動は馬車です。都市内では石畳の道路、それ以外は舗装された道ではないはずです。生涯なんども旅をしていたモーツァルトは馬車のスピードを体感していたはずです。10年ほど前、馬車に乗る機会を得ました。モーツァルトのAllegroの速度感をそこから推測しました。カール・ベームの速度感は遅いという批判がありますが、馬車に乗った感覚、ウィーン、ザルツブルグの街の道を思い起こし、ベームの速度感は間違いではなく彼なりに模索した速度感だと思いました。楽器にしても、ヴァイオリン、ヴィオラ、チェロなどの弦楽器はガット弦だったはず、ガット弦を切らすことなく演奏するスピードには一定の速度があったに違いないです。

[@corradogiachetta2154]

@@torusato401What you said about carriagws is very interesting but I don’t think it’s the correct way to approsch tempo research .In this instance we have metronome marks from someone who studied and lived with Mozart. And generally accounts of perforomance durations seem to indicate that people tended to play slightly faster than today

[@drorgolan7121]

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[@Usertepecfd]

19:30

[@Usertepecfd]

27:00

[@Usertepecfd]

23:25