W. A. Mozart - KV 203 (189b) - "Colloredo" Serenade in D major

The serenade is set in 8 movements:
1. Andante maestoso - Allegro assai (0:00)
2. Andante (8:23)
3. Menuetto (16:01)
4. Allegro (19:01)
5. Menuetto (24:46)
6. Andante (28:34)
7. Menuetto (36:51)
8. Prestissimo (42:01)
Composed in Salzburg in August 1774.
Performers: Collegium Aureum, conducted by Franzjosef Maier.

[@rr7firefly]

There are times when I stop to consider how different our lives, our cultural heritage, would be if Mozart had not been born. We'd have an enormous void in our aesthetic awareness and yet we'd also not know what was missing. Circumstances came together to bring Mozart to his remarkable destiny. We should be grateful.

[@jlb9368]

Thank you God for Mozart.

[@stephanejavier5495]

Le 2em andante est a tomber par terre..

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Mozart’s music must the dryness of my soul, and is a panacea to heal and purify the soul

[@amedeomarra8398]

l'insuperabile MOZART e' ancora vivo.

[@bmeinardus]

Mozart komponierte die lieblichsten Melodien!!!!!!

[@jcarterjoseph9066]

So pleasant, so natural, so witty and fresh. Sounds effortless, almost as if it wrote itself (It didn't). Mozart never gets old. He has been by constant companion for over 50 years now. Life would be so much poorer without him. Hadn't heard this serenade in decades.

[@hertzair1186]

J Carter Joseph : likewise...when I discovered Mozart at age 23, it changed my life forever ...Nothing compares...(closest is Haydn).

[@ProdigyImprovisation]

J Carter Joseph Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the creation of God almighty. He is Most innocent & pure of all the creatures, surprisingly in the animal kingdom he is to be known as the 🦩. Until I’ve got the sign in a dream who he truly is inside, which i hadn’t known before, it relates to that animal in nature. As an experiment, watch a video of a flourishing flamingo while listening to Mozart’s beauty. So then See for yourself how you can match the resemblance of such a miracle that of which Mozart’s own personality sparkles within the music of true beauty...

[@Fuliginosus]

@@ProdigyImprovisation Interesting idea. Flamingos are beautiful, delicate, graceful, and humorous at the same time.

[@ProdigyImprovisation]

@@Fuliginosus Mozart is a Flamingo

[@Fuliginosus]

@@ProdigyImprovisation Agreed

[@IVANPLLIMAPOARSBRA]

Mozart for music is like Shakespeare and Dostoevsky for literature. Gods.

[@simonkawasaki4229]

This work is a shining example of Mozart’s early style... simple, yet interesting and comfortable. This is probably the best example of the _traditional_ Salzburg Finalmusik written for the graduating university students. The musicians would arrive to the outdoor garden venue, all while playing a designated march, for this one it is K. 237 (The bass and violone players would have the instrument strapped to their torsos). Great structural ingenuity with the recurrence of that simple downward I-V bass line heard in the opening. It is again heard verbatim in 30:47.

[@fernandofernandezgar]

El incomparable joven genio de Salzburgo.

[@yvonnelenders5986]

Indeed

[@SuperMusicizmylife]

Mozart hat diese herrlicher Komposition für einen solchen Possenreißer komponierte! Das ist ein wahrer Hinweis auf Mozarts Genie.

[@salt2live]

Possenreißer? Dies auch nur im Sinne dessen, dass er die (seiner Meinung nach) geistlichen "Possen" zerriß und diese im Sinne seiner aufklärerischen Reform der katholischen Kirche im Fürst-Erzbistum Salzburg verbot. "Der Arbeitsablauf Colloredos war geprägt von Stetigkeit und Energie. Der Fürst besaß eine hohe Intelligenz, ein schnelles Urteilsvermögen, eine ausgezeichnete Menschenkenntnis sowie eine weltmännische und geschickte Verhandlungsweise. Geschäfte blieben nie liegen, die meistens eigenhändigen Entschließungen belegen einen treffsicheren und schnellen Geschäftsblick. Colloredo beherrschte neben Deutsch und Latein Französisch, Italienisch und Tschechisch. Er war ein guter Violinspieler und liebte Musik. Dabei führte der stets kränkliche Colloredo ein schlichtes und einfaches Leben und hielt stets eine strenge Diät." Quelle: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_von_Colloredo_(Erzbischof) ; www.sn.at/wiki/Hieronymus_Graf_Colloredo ; www.aventinus-online.de/neuzeit/zeitalter-des-absolutismus-164859-1789/art/Der_Jubilaeumsh/html/ca/5ceb2ce600de4560fa35195199ecc18a/indexee27.html?tx_mediadb_pi1%5BmaxItems%5D=10 ; www.traunsteiner-tagblatt.de/das-traunsteiner-tagblatt/chiemgau-blaetter/chiemgau-blaetter-2019_ausgabe,-ein-hirtenbrief-im-kreuzfeuer-der-meinungen-_chid,1644.html

[@johnmcgraw1765]

My favorite while smoking Spinach Diesel Weed from Canada, my foot just taps along

[@NealA-bu4pm]

Glorious. Glorious. Glorious.

[@markdesaint-rat4905]

The second andante is totally addictive in good company with symphony 28, violin concerto 3, and Voi avete un cor fedele

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

What does Symphony 28 and Violin Concerto 3 have to do with this piece?

[@JonathanKofi]

I seriously cannot get enough of it! My favorite movement in this serenade!

[@JoelGarcia-du3jt]

La música más hermosa

[@ecalpemos1006]

Colloredo was the Bisshop of Salzburg, living in the giant castle over the town. He didn't have any patience with composers delivering music 'too late'. They were imprisoned in his castle. Once Coloredo forced protestants to leave Salzburg in the middle of the winter. Eventually those protestants could find a new home in the Netherlands after a voyage along the river Rhine (in the middle of the Winter).

[@roberthill799]

Popes and bishops are amongst the must murderous criminals in history.

[@user-il1vr9lu9e]

聞けば聞くほど好きになる。

[@user-bl6lf3or6w]

eccellente!!!irripetibile!!!

[@user-il1vr9lu9e]

ゆったりと始まるのが好きだ。

[@AdamCzarnowski]

This work has such irrepressible youthful energy and joie de vivre. One of Mozart most joyous and infectious creations, which is saying a lot.

[@Philippaguiness]

Yet the Andante is the best part of it!

[@fidelj.icardi752]

El ritmo màs corpulento sosteniendo a la tragedia y a la belleza al mismo instante. Mozart dio a la luz el sonido 💛

[@godinezgonzalez3125]

The rest of the story is worth knowing. (...) The summers of the past seem to be filled with sunshine and music in the open. The continuous rain that usually torments visitors to Salzburg these days must be a modern innovation, one thinks. At all events, Mozart in his teens, among many other composers, wrote at least one Serenade every summer, to celebrate the wedding of a prominent citizen, the Archbishop's name-day or the end of the University year. The music was probably completed on the night before and rehearsed with the incredible speed, or optimisim, that prevailed in the good old days. The band would play the music in two or more parts of the town on the same evening, proceeding to their new location with a March specially composed to go with the Serenade.The autograph of K.203 (K.189b) bears the words 'Serenata del Sgr. Wolfgango Amadeo Mozart, nel mese d'agosto 1774'. The date is firmly crossed out but seems a probable one, (Mozart was then eighteen). The suggestion by Mozart's first biographer Niemetschek that it was written for the name-day of the Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo, has given this work the title of 'Colloredo Serenade'. As that name-day falls on the 30th September, the connection is dubious.This Serenade combines the formal grandeur of the opening and D major Minuets with the breathless exhilaration of the first and last movements on the one hand, and the tenderness of the Andantes on the other - the first a deeply felt operatic Aria (the long held note that introduces the solo was a common feature of slow espressivo Arias in Italian opera), the other a piece of sustained night-music with a murmuring accompaniment. (Decca STS 15077-ES)

[@roberthill799]

“Good old days”? Sure Mozart was there then but so was plague, dysentery, filth, lice, and the Catholic Church.

[@enricoluccarini3626]

Good post! So the "Colloredo" title came from Niemetschek? I might have known. But "Hieronymus" is 15 June, no? Either way it doesn't fit. This one is so long that I don't think it was a finalmusik - more likely something like a wedding party.

[@frglee]

And almost exactly 250 years later, here I am, listening to this delightful piece of music for the first time - brought here by hearing part of it (Allegro 19:08 ) used for the end credits of a British classic film from 1949, 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'.

[@ginesdepasamonte9468]

Oh my God, the second Andante....

[@nvda2damoon]

now imagine you are the arch bishop and this piece is written for YOU!

[@D1E9086]

Amen!

[@RPe-jk6dv]

4. Allegro kind Hearts and coronets

[@danielrodriguez9630]

Mozart cuanto trabajo bajo las velas.Escribiendo el futuro...

[@marianabaccela8326]

Excellent!

[@martinmoller5591]

This is one of the best compositions of Mozart!! Unf. too seldom heard.

[@danal81]

No. It’s not.

[@jameshandaja1536]

Not even close. Mozart's best work happens to be quite popular too: Requiem

[@DanielFahimi]

@@jameshandaja1536 No, that's not his best work either.

[@genialhorn]

K204 is just as good and also similarly, unjustly neglected.

[@petermerelis]

@@genialhorn the piano concerti and the chamber music, if you want to hear his very best.

[@angelaslonovschi5784]

Splendidă!

[@germanquintero10121946]

hermosa musica

[@bedenerexhepaj293]

Sublime!!!

[@mariateresagutierrez4653]

Hermoso

[@davesurprenant5548]

I hear the second movement of Mozart's Bassoon Concerto around 28:50...just a few KVs earlier.

[@Otussagittatus]

2:04 Kodaly's Viennese Musical Clock

[@user-lr5xk1bq2s]

0:00 8:23 16:01 19:01 24:46 28:34 36:51 42:01

[@mdrakic]

Do I hear parts of his 5th Violin Concerto around 23:00 or am I wrong?

[@mariowork7654]

Do you have any info about the artwork (the painting)? Thanks,

[@Fuliginosus]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with his sister Maria Anna and father Leopold, on the wall a portrait of his dead mother Anna Maria, by Johann Nepomuk della Croce. c. 1780

[@MultiVeldmuis]

Muziek voor de eeuwigheid. Muziek als balsem voor de ziel.

[@MusiExplora]

sounds for me a little pre-classical like Holzbauer or Albrechtsberger although Mozart composed it => but mature opus

[@wolfgang1097]

In Adante, 32:04 & 34:17 kinda sounds like it came right out of the VeggieTales episode "Esther, the Girl Who Became Queen," for some reason.

[@richardmoon1852]

Thanks

[@gabrielruiz4113]

Impresciindible para mi Museo

[@cellymozart-fan3949]

Am schönsten finde ich das 4. Allegro.

[@RPe-jk6dv]

ich auch. in dem film "kind hearts and coronets" von 1949 ist es neben der wiener sinfonie und der arie des don ottavio im 1. akt von don giovanni in der filmmusik verarbeitet worden.

[@roycezaro1998]

Dank!

[@josefthanner8088]

Why these two numbers? (203 and 189b)

[@simonkawasaki4229]

The Köchel catalogue was created by Ludwig von Köchel in order to organize Mozart's works in chronological order. The first number is the one that Köchel himself gave it, and the second number was given later; it is more precise in showing that this serenade was composed in 1774.

[@DressedForDrowning]

@@simonkawasaki4229 Thank you.

[@aperson6934]

44:25

[@emmahopf]

IMozart nachserenade

[@Johnadams20760]

was colleredo the good archbishop that supported the mozarts or is this the guy who dismissed him

[@cuatesanchez3940]

El que lo despidió (gracias a Dios) hacia Viena

[@cuatesanchez3940]

Hay que anotar, que la relación entre el arzobispo y Leopoldo Mozart siguió siendo buena

[@ANYA.RIZALI]

meow meow

[@bmeinardus]

What do you mean with that?

[@ArturLUBIACYgry]

Mozart had composed such a glorious music and Colloredo had done such a awful thing to Him (and Colloredo'd behaved so badly :< )

[@ArturLUBIACYgry]

No that wasn't your family !

[@ArturLUBIACYgry]

***** Whence do you know that ? :

[@ArturLUBIACYgry]

Yes ! Did you have a family there or something like this ?

[@ArturLUBIACYgry]

I'm sorry I didn't know that is your family! :

[@ArturLUBIACYgry]

They didn't (unfortunately) the power of Mozart's music :

[@dezabaleta1]

Excellent !