Auditory Fine Arts

[Fine Arts - Auditory / Classical Music] • Coda of the final movement combines five distinct musical themes into a massive five-voice fugato. • Finale's main theme opens with the whole-note motif C, D, F, E. • First movement opens with a loud unison C followed by ascending sixteenth-note triplet flourishes from G up to C.

Jupiter Symphony (Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C major)

[Fine Arts - Auditory / Concertos] • Adagio movement features the soloist dipping from G-sharp to G and embellishing an Eingang over an A dominant 7th chord. • Written specifically for the extended low register of the 'basset' instrument built by Theodor Lotz. • Composed for and premiered by the virtuoso Anton Stadler.

Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major (Mozart's last completed instrumental work)

[Fine Arts - Opera / Mozart] • Third act contains the B-flat major soprano duet 'Sull'aria,' where characters dictate a fake love letter arranging a tryst 'under the pines'. • Opening scene features the duet 'Cinque, dieci, venti' as two characters measure room dimensions for a bed. • Features the aria 'Non più andrai,' in which the title character mocks Cherubino as an 'amorous butterfly' heading off to military service.

The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro)

[Fine Arts - Opera / Mozart] • Servants' catalog aria ('Madamina, il catalogo è questo') details 1,003 romantic conquests in Spain alone. • Title character woos the peasant girl Zerlina in the duet 'Là ci darem la mano'. • Climax features the stone statue of the Commendatore accepting a dinner invitation ('a cenar teco') and dragging the title libertine to hell.

Don Giovanni (by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

[Fine Arts - Opera / Mozart] • Overture opens with three slow Masonic chords: E-flat major, C minor in first inversion, and E-flat major in second inversion. • Features the coloratura aria 'Der Hölle Rache,' which commands Pamina to kill Sarastro while hitting repeated staccato high F6 notes. • The birdcatcher Papageno stutters 'pa, pa, pa' after having a padlock removed from his mouth for lying about killing a snake.

The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte)

[Fine Arts - Auditory / Sacred Music] • Introit opens with a 'D, C-sharp, D, E, F' motif played on bassoon and basset horn, inspired by Handel. • 'Tuba Mirum' movement opens with a solo trombone outlining a B-flat major arpeggio, echoed by a bass soloist. • Left unfinished at bar 8 of the 'Lacrimosa' upon the composer's death; completed by student Franz Xaver Süssmayr.

Mozart's Requiem Mass in D minor (Commissioned anonymously by Count von Walsegg)

[Fine Arts - Auditory / Keyboard Works] • First movement uniquely eschews traditional sonata-allegro form in favor of an Andante grazioso 6/8 siciliana theme with variations. • Final movement's primary theme opens on pickup 16th notes: 'B, A, G-sharp, A, C'. • Concludes with a famous 2/4 rondo imitating Ottoman Janissary military bands.

Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major (Ends with the 'Rondo alla turca' / Turkish March)

[Fine Arts - Auditory / Composers] • Co-composed the lost cantata Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia with Mozart to celebrate soprano Nancy Storace's recovery. • Composed the opera Tarare (reworked into Axur, re d'Ormus) and completed Christoph Gluck's opera Les Danaïdes. • Imperial court Kapellmeister who taught Franz Liszt and Ludwig van Beethoven; court rival falsely accused of poisoning Mozart.

Antonio Salieri

[Fine Arts - Auditory / Chamber Music] • Opens with an uncharacteristically chromatic Adagio introduction where pulsing low C's are joined by entering A-flat, E-flat, and A-natural notes. • Penultimate entry in a set of six string quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn. • The finale is played at the end of Ariel Dorfman's play Death and the Maiden as a giant mirror is lowered to face the audience.

"Dissonance" Quartet (Mozart's String Quartet No. 19 in C major)